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.
For
the American relatives of the fallen, it was an outpouring of gratitude
almost as stunning as the rows of white marble crosses and Jewish Stars
of David at the Netherlands American Cemetery. Each grave has been
adopted by a Dutch or, in some cases, Belgian or German family, as well
as local schools, companies and military organizations. More than 100
people are on a waiting list to become caretakers.
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