National Veterans' Day in Finland
National Veterans' Day in Finland is held on April 27. This event in the third decade of the month April is annual. Help us
National Veterans' Day (Finnish: kansallinen veteraanipäivä, Swedish: nationella veterandagen) is a remembrance day for all the war veterans of Finland. On National Veterans’ Day, we fly the flag to honour war veterans.
Since 1987, National Veterans’ Day has been celebrated on 27 April, the day the Lapland War ended in 1945.
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