National Day

I always found it funny that Malta has 5 so called 'national days' . Independence Day , Freedom Day , Republic Day , Victory Day and Sette Giugno are all very important days in the country's history and all deserve a high level of commemoration .
However in Malta where political partisan opinions are split down the middle , calling some of these days a 'national' day is absurd . For example everyone refers to Freedom day as 'tal-labour ' since it was the Labour Party who where in government , therefore all celebrations this year were carried out by Joseph Muscat and co. The same applies for Indepence Day were all the celebrations are carried out by the Nationalist Party since they were in government . In the dark days of the 70's and 80's these celebrations carried out by the Nationalist party were attacked time and time again by Socialist thugs . At least Malta has now come out of that stage however it was still disgusting to hear of local council's disagreeing over the planning of celbrations of Freedom Day a few weeks ago . It was also unpleasent to hear that in the supposed 'national ' mass meeting on Freedom Day , Joseph Muscat referred to the tariffs and other political issues . These three holidays ( Indepence , Republic and Freedom Day ) have nothing 'national' about them instead we are constantly reminded about the partisan following in Malta .
In my eyes a national day should a day in which the entire nation are united celebration . Not waving blue flags or red flags but the red and white of Malta. If there is a date like this ? Yes and that is the 8th of September 1565 when the Maltese defeated the Turks and won the great siege. Only on that day were we united , only on that day were we proud to be Maltese . The only true national holiday should be the 8th of September hoewever the other days should still be comemorated and respected but not regarded as 'national' days .