Tjuesjette mai:
Australia:
National Day of Healing. National Sorry Day.
It all went for the same thing; to raise awareness and educate, about the forcible removal policy that the Stolen Generation were forced to go through, the general public, politicians and policy makers.
For long, politicians ignored, or "did not subscribe to the black armband view of history". Then in 2008 the first, and hopefully not the last, of politicians and Prime Ministers, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, publicly apologized to the Stolen Generation.
USA:
Something hit Arthur Kirkland, England, in the cheek. Touching it, he found nothing. A glance down showed him that the object had been the paper airplane that now rested innocently on the floor. Turning around to the task he'd momentarily left; he was hit in the forehead.
This time he glanced up.
Sitting as innocent as can be across from him was Alfred F. Jones, USA.
Thinking this was a juvenile prank of some kind on Alfred's behalf, Arthur decided to just ignore him. He'd after all centuries of experience in ignoring juvenile pranks (just ask France).
However, no amount of experience could help him ignore the 198th paper airplane that came flying.
-Alfred! I know today is National Paper Airplane for your people, but do you think you can appreciate that we've work? Which needs to be done by the end of the day?!
-Aw, come on Iggy! We don't know how long we're going to be here. For all we know we could be here all day, and I won't be able to fire off a single paper airplane.
-Isn't this day supposed to be for your people, and not necessarily for your entertainment? Arthur asked icily. He was as frustrated as Alfred was about the work they'd to do but complaining about it didn't get it done.
-Yeah… Alfred demurely replied casting his eyes down but with a pout on his lips.
-Well, I hope you didn't use the contracts we've to go through for your airplanes.
Alfred didn't reply.
Author's notes:
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