MARGRATEN, Netherlands — They haven’t forgotten. For 70 years, the Dutch have come to a verdant U.S. cemetery outside this small village to care for the graves of Americans killed in World War II.
On Sunday, they came again, bearing Memorial Day bouquets for men and women they never knew, but whose 8,300 headstones the people of the Netherlands have adopted as their own.
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Monday, May 25, 2015
Americans gave their lives to defeat the Nazis. The Dutch have never forgotten.
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Memorial Day,
Netherlands,
remembrance
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