Festivities

Queens day, Commemoration Day, Liberation Day. And all that in one week. Holland was on a role.

Queensday is the national holiday, the celebration of the royal family, the House of Orange. On commemoration day the victims of the second world war and wars fought after that are commemorated, and on liberation day the defeat of nazi Germany is celebrated.

The purpose of all three days are currently scrutinized.
For a reason- Queensday has become a day of binge drinking instead of a day of ceremony, and Commemoration Day and Liberation Day are days in which a war which has very few survivors is in the center of attention.

Scrutinzed, ok- but what else? How should those days be celebrated? I have got no clue. For one, I like the way Queensday is being celebrated- it fits in with the picture of Holland as a liberal and tolerant country; and commemorating the dead of the biggest war in which Holland was ever part reminds us of need to stay a tolerant and liberal country. Liberation Day should stay a day in which freedom and the right to make your own choices are celebrated.

As long as those values are kept, I am perfectly fine with a new filling in of those day. But hey, isn't this remark like kicking in an open door?