Posted on 03/15/2015 5:11:44 PM PDT by Vanders9
About six miles from Maastricht, in the Netherlands, lie buried 8,301 American soldiers who died in "Operation Market Garden" in the battles to liberate Holland in the fall/winter of 1944. Every one of the men buried in the cemetery, as well as those in the Canadian and British military cemeteries, has been adopted by a Dutch family who mind the grave, decorate it, and keep alive the memory of the soldier they have adopted. It is even the custom to keep a portrait of "their" soldier in a place of honour in their home.
Annually, on "Liberation Day," memorial services are held for "the men who died to liberate Holland." The day concludes with a concert. The final piece is always "Il Silenzio," a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of Holland's liberation. It has been the concluding piece of the memorial concert ever since.
This year the soloist was a 13-year-old Dutch girl, Melissa Venema, backed by André Rieu and his orchestra (the Royal Orchestra of the Netherlands). This beautiful concert piece is based upon the original version of taps and was composed by Italian composer Nino Rossi.
Perhaps they were not all Americans, so what, get a life.
My uncle, whom I am named after, is buried in Margratten and a Dutch family has tended his grave since some time after March 1945. They are still there and they still appreciate what it cost the USA to recover their country...don't use a reporter's ignorance of specific units or battles to cast stones!
The girl's performance was fine and the audience clearly shows that it's important to others if not to you.
Perhaps you should try for a media job. You both got the number of graves right, but you both ignore that all the dead are NOT from Market Garden. Because to some folks, facts just aren’t important.
It's me, BTW. YouTube used to provide a jpeg thumbnail, but apparently it's just some sort of weblink now.
I'll have to figure out what they did.
I’ve forgotten more about our media enemies than you’ll ever know.
Holy geez. That's 70 years.
The girl's performance was fine and the audience clearly shows that it's important to others if not to you
Pretty awesome, wasn't it?
I had issues with my computer monitor fogging up, though...
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I look on our friends overseas who remember our fallen as allies in this fight against the grubering Managerial State.
They are afflicted by the same lying weasels.
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