Yesterday (21.01) in
Poland we celebrated the Grandmother's Day. Today (22.01) it is the
day when we celebrate the Grandfather's Day. However, only in Poland,
these two days are actually devoted to the reminiscence of our
grandparents because around the world people celebrate the presence
of their ancestors the first Sunday after The Labour Day (so it is
the first Sunday of the September). The idea to create such a day in
the calendar came from the American woman – Mariane McQuade, who
lived in the 1970s in the US, whose aime was to encourage families to
visit their grandparents and parents in nursing homes so that they
didn't feel abandoned and redundant. In the campaign Mariane also
strongly emphasised the importance of elder people in the society,
shown as a kind of still living history, better than any other
historic book. The date, established finally by the president of the
US – Jimmy Carter in 1978, had also a symbolic message because
September, being the first month of the automne, indicates the
''autumn years' of life. It is also worth to mention that this day
has its official anthem: 'A Song for Grandma and Grandpa' and the
symbol of this event is the flower 'forget-me-not'.
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