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National Days & Anniversaries

Unity Day, 22 January 2019

A greeting for the day, and a note on the human chain.

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Photo: The original uploader was Bryndza at English Wikipedia. · Public domain

The custom of marking this day with a chain of people holding hands across a bridge is one I have always liked, because it cannot be done by an institution.

A parade requires organisers. A chain requires enough individual people to turn up in the cold and stand next to a stranger, and if they do not, there is no chain.

That is a fairly honest annual measurement of something, and it is taken in the open air.

Congratulations on Unity Day to everyone marking it, on a bridge or otherwise.

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