The first, most crucial and adequate answer to the question set out in the title is: We celebrate due to the fact that we are Poles, we love Poland and we are arrogant that we are a national community. If we would like to know more about the date itself, on 11 November 1918 the Regency Council handed over military power to Józef Piłsudski and the chief command over the forming Polish Army. This minute is considered a symbolic beginning of Poland's independency after 123 years of occupation