Finland 85 Years

Independent Finland 85 years since 6.12.1917.

Happy Independence Day
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää

:)

Happy Independence Day to you evert!
ours is in July when its warm!!! =]

Ours is now when it's cold... :)
I made a blue ice lantern but I left it outside for a little too long time. :}

Happy Birthday, Finland...home of one of our favorite Dave's Gardener's!! Evert...have a lovely day today. Jo

Happy B-Day Finland,Have a great day Evert,I'm still working on my candle:)

A good day for Finland!
Evert, did I ever tell you
that my Swedish grandmother
went to elementary school in
northern Finland?
Happy Independence Day! :-)

Happy Independence Day to all Finns, and may your country always be free.

Happy Independence Day, Evert. Your blue lantern must have been beautiful while it "lived," LOL.

Thank you all for the kind words.

Oscarsdotter, no you didn't. Where in Northern Finland?

Just came from outside, took the flag off from the pole.

Happy Independence Day for everyone in Finland, may it last forever in peace and prosperity.

Happy Independence Day EVERT!!!!

Happy Independence Day! This event trumps the one I posted for St. Nicholas Day. May freedom reign in your land forever!

Free countrys everywhere salute, and the others just wish for their freedom. Thanks for sharing this special day with us. Can you post a bit more about it please, what country(s) was finland part of? Was the division a peaceful one or part of the moving of country lines after World War I? How do people in Finland celebrate the day? Did you go to any special observances?

Finland used to be part of Sweden, and then Russia (not Soviet Union though some people think we were). We came independent after WW I and we were in war during WW II with Soviet Union. No one helped us, small country had to fight against massive nation. Well, some Germans did come here, but when we made somekind of a truce with SU they had to leave and they destroyed many cities in Northern Finland, like Rovaniemi. They burned all houses and left.

Finland lost the war, and we had to give some land areas to Soviet Union. They also wanted lots of stuff (trains, food, clothes, etc..) from us as war indemnities. We finally got them paid in the 50s. We had olympics in Helsinki on 1952 and it was a real show ow re-organized and quickly recovered country.

You can read more about these things from

http://hkkk.fi/~yrjola/war/finland/
http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/war1.html

How we celebrate Independence Day... Well, everyone have their own ways, but there are blue-white candles burning in every house, and flag in the pole of course. There are some fireworks in bigge cities and such. It is not a big party with parades like there, more like a peaceful day remembering the efforts to make our country free.

Hey Evert how ya doing today?

Just fine thanks ;)

I have 2 questions for you,I was wondering where I found the site that you had on your page,showing the live webcam, also when you scroll down on your page I see two boxs with small Xs, a click on here takes me back to forums,, is your page working OK? thought you might want to check it out.

What do you mean live webcam?

Yes I asked Dave what's wrong in my member page, he said something about referers... no idea what to do. I hope it looks normal to at least someone.

There was a page I linked to on your page,it had a spot with a live webcam,updated every minute or so,showed down town Helsinki.

Where? I can't find that one. :/

Ill look more

http://www.hel.fi/english/ I think this is where I found it?

Did I have that link on my member page? Well, however... I will gather some nice Finnish webcam links now and put them soon to my member page.

Thanks,looks like a nice night there