In case you didn't know it the people in the Netherlands and Holland have a special connection to the American, British, and Canadian Soldiers who gave up their lives to free them from German occupation.
By the end of the war these people were starving with no food to eat. Allied Bomber planes dropped thousands of tons of food to save the population from starving. Soldiers shared whatever food they had with the population as well.
They have not forgotten the men who saved them.....
" Every one of the graves that remain has been adopted, either by a family (most, but not all, of them Dutch), local school, business, or military outfit who visit it on days such as Memorial Day, Christmas, and the first and last day of the soldier's life.
Some graves are "passed down" to a family's next generation; there's even a waiting list for those wanting to adopt a grave.
Yesterday (2015) saw some 6,000 people — including Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, notes the AP — attend a ceremony there, as they have done since May 30, 1945. What Rutte had to say: "Thank you to our liberators. Thank you for enabling us to stand here today in freedom, and we bow our heads in memory of the fallen."
By the end of the war these people were starving with no food to eat. Allied Bomber planes dropped thousands of tons of food to save the population from starving. Soldiers shared whatever food they had with the population as well.
They have not forgotten the men who saved them.....
" Every one of the graves that remain has been adopted, either by a family (most, but not all, of them Dutch), local school, business, or military outfit who visit it on days such as Memorial Day, Christmas, and the first and last day of the soldier's life.
Some graves are "passed down" to a family's next generation; there's even a waiting list for those wanting to adopt a grave.
Yesterday (2015) saw some 6,000 people — including Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, notes the AP — attend a ceremony there, as they have done since May 30, 1945. What Rutte had to say: "Thank you to our liberators. Thank you for enabling us to stand here today in freedom, and we bow our heads in memory of the fallen."
In a Small Dutch Village, Our Dead Soldiers Are Loved
This is just amazing. Thinking of all our fallen soldiers on this Memorial Day, including these 8,301.
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