LL-L: "Help needed" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 04.OCT.1999 (02)

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From: André van den Berg [ecdbv at xs4all.nl]
Subject: LL-L: "Help needed" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 03.OCT.1999 (05)

> There was a strip of metal curled into a flat spiral as a decoration on the
> corner of our roof. On VE Day (1945) a flag was hung on a rope

Hello,

In Holland we have special flagholders which are used by three kinds of people:

1) People who celebrate the queens and her husbands birthday (+ the crownprince)

2) People who 'halfmast' on the 4th of May (remembrance day for the casualties
     in '40-45) and joyfully on the 5th of May; that's when we celebrate the
liberation
    of Holland by the allied troops
3) People who take part in all the activities.

The latest is that we also remember/celebrate the events in Indonesia during
WWII
(5th of August I think).

We buy these flagholders in hardware stores. An orange ribbon is tied to the
flag when
one also celebrates anything connected to the house of Orange.

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