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Originally posted by MagiK:
You people are just dying to find some sinister plot to assign to GWB  sheesh...did you know that more than half of that wording was standard boilerplate for declaring a national holiday....geez get over it already....I know Canada also has a few.....odd....holidays and there are any number of suspect Holidays from around the world..so if they want to take a day and celebrate national loyalty then fine...Loyalty is not a dirty word ya know...it is considered a virtue by some people.
Edit: Look out world the evil Americans are coming..One Nation to rule them all, One Nation to find them, One nation to bring them all and in the darkness bind them....in the land of SUV's where the ozone lies.
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Although you make a good point, America is the only country I know of that sees patriotism to equal loyalty.
I still stand for what I said. Not many countries celebrate a day for showing your loyalty. And this does sound like campaigning whether you like it or not. And I would have said the same had it been a democrat as president, so would most other non-Americans too you know.
Up here we have pretty much the same holidays as you do although we call them by another name, Veteran's day is Remembrance day. I doubt most countries do not celebrate a loyalty day.
Loyalty may very well be a virtue or a vice, but it is not, contrary to some beliefs on your lovely country, not American.
And no there is no sarcasm here, I do find your country to be lovely. [img]smile.gif[/img]