Kuwait’s Double National Day Celebrations · Global Voices
Abdullatif AlOmar

Two national day celebrations were marked in Kuwait last week – one on February 25 and the second on February 26. Kuwait's bloggers were quick to dig into the history of the celebrations.
LiL ALiEN in a post entitled معلومات وطنية للجيل الجديد (National Information for New Generation) writes:
في 19 يونيو 1961 تم إلغاء معاهدة الحماية البريطانية التي وقعت في 23 يناير 1899 ، و إعلان استقلال دولة الكويت
لأنه اليوم الذي استلم فيه المرحوم الشيخ عبدالله السالم الصباح الحكم بتاريخ 25 فبراير 1950 بالإضافه أنه اول يوم بدأ فيه استخدام النشيد الوطني الحالي
26 فبراير 1991 هو يوم تحرير الكويت من الغزو الصدامي الغاشم الذي بدأ في 2 اغسطس 1990 ودام 7 أشهر، وساعد في تحرير الكويت 30 دولة بقيادة الولايات المتحدة وبتشريع من الأمم المتحدة
RADIANT GUY created a slide show to commemorate the  occasion.
I've created this slide show (below) for Kuwait's independence and liberation days using photos I've taken my self between 2006 – 2008 in several locations
Forzaq8 wrote a short poem:
We may speak of as if its dull
While it seem as if amount of logic is null
Sometimes you are surrounded by culls
Which would drive you mad and make you go on quell
But there is nothing like that can make you lull
In the end the glass is not half empty but half full
Of course not everyone is happy with what happens during such celebrations. 
intlxpatr describes what happened to her when she went out.
Yesterday, I was finishing up a project around 6 and heading to my next appointment when I turned onto Gulf road. Big mistake. I should have taken my clue from the barriers guarding entry to the left on Gulf road, but as I was turning right, I didn’t give it more than a second thought.
Big mistake. Suddenly I am caught in semi-gridlock, and the worst kind, gridlock with gangs of adolescents wandering the sidewalks on both sides of the car, gridlock with main routes being barred, gridlock with people in adjacent cars spraying each other with high arching streams of foam – it’s like suddenly being in the middle of a nightmare.
mpjs gives advice of what to do during the Hala February celebrations, an extravagant celebration to mark the occasion.
After a year of waiting, Hala February Celebrations have come to their max today. I very eagerly wait for  today since I get sprayed with foam when I make eye contact with these kids. I wait eagerly every year for this day waiting for the newspaper guy to come to my doorstep and drop the paper so that I can read about the crimes they have committed
Image Credit : Yousef from somecontrast