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Thursday, September 11

Not only infamous

My birthday, in case you don't know, is on a day that lives etched into the memories of older Europeans - D-Day, June 6th, date of the Normandy Landings that turned the tide in WWII. As I have grown older this fact has gradually become less significant to people. So it's with a certain empathy that I'd like to wish my friend Sabrina a very happy (landmark) birthday.

She's got no choice of changing to a different day and it will take many years for the associated sadness in people's minds to pass. So I'm extending warmth to her because no date is only bad (or good) and some of us are pleased to think of this as the day she was born rather than in the other, currently more visible connection.

posted at 6:47 PM (UK) | |

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