No this is not the pack of cigarettes.
is "just" the date of independence.
lived one day as a holiday, no more.
We read the newspaper, drinking his coffee and is activated to run errands or stroll and enjoy the spring sun, the wind in your hair.
Last year, almost to the day, I was appalled that my students in their first year of college, not know the exact date of the independence of their country, they quibble "uh 56? 57" , outraged that their 1881 does not say anything at all, for them that Bourguiba was just an old guy who preceded the current president, nothing more.
Nothing amnesia General.
A year later, I want them least, I myself forgot that famous 1881 during a discussion this morning.
1881 Mars1956 20 on 1 January 1957 and and and ....
I opened the TV to not "forget", a serial channel 7 passes Ramadan (???) and Hannibal tv clip Saber Rebai singing the praises of a sudden Tunisia olive groves and ruins Dougga and co. Want to shoot himself in the head ...
That could mean that time for me for my students as much as 20 years? Why should I cry over them and treat them with amnesia?
It is by force of circumstance.
They are symbolic, historical moments that we have not lived, with no echo in our memories of youth and that it has no!
A holiday, nothing more.
not worth comparing with the symbolism of July 14 or July 4th ...
no desire to celebrate this date?
no pride in this day? and no flag to hang outside his house? no fireworks? no thought for these men and women who have sweated to happen on my watch?
just a date on a calendar?
Just the urge to grumble in the corner, drinking his coffee and shut the damn TV!
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