Singapore celebrates National Day on 9 August, recognising its independence from Malaysia in 1965. Each year, there’s an accompanying stamp. In 1968, the theme was Work for Prosperity.
And that’s fine, you think. A country has its independence and it creates commemorative stamps. It turns out that indepdences is an end that becomes a means. In Singapore’s case, in 1968, independence was the means to set up a range of institutions whose functions had been carried out elsewhere: industrial boards, national banks, an airline, a shipping line and an anti-littering campaign. Independence then is both an ending and a beginning; a leap of faith in those building new institutions; the watershed between what was and what will be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_(Singapore)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_in_Singapore
Stamp of the Day 