"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com> wrote in message

> He died on July 1; our national day is July 4.

You mean he was forgotten in 3 days ?
Is not the average Joe of any industrial country supposed to have a memory
for at least 5 days about the recent history ?
For me, he died on 4th as that's the day we learnt it here. You know well
in Japan, we (are present at) work on Thursday, get drunk on Friday and wake
up to read the news Sunday night.

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