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Originally Posted by Green Light

It's a shame. The Dutch used to have what it takes. My son's grandfather was an FO in the Dutch Artillery. His battery fought until they were overrun by the Nazis. He was taken prisoner and taken to a camp where they did medical experiments on him. Then they used him as slave labor in their sub pens. He was released after the war and never complained about what had happened to him.

His wife was in the Dutch resistence. She worked in the rail station giving intel on German troop train movements. During Market Garden she went to an evasion point and found a Canadian flyer who'd been shot down. She got him civilian clothes and had him pedal her bicycle with her on the handle bars. She told him to let her do the talking if they ran into Germans. She got him to the next leg in the evasion route - a monestary. The pilot made it home and looked her up after they immigrated to the US.

The bravest thing their family did was in the initial occupation of the Netherlands. They wore yellow stars of David on their clothes in protest for the treatment of their Jewish neighbors. They did this until they were asked to stop by their Jewish friends. Their friends didn't want them to have the same fate that awaited them. They said it with tears running down their cheeks in gratitude for their bravery and their love.

I fear that there aren't many like those brave souls left. It's a shame.

What a shame to the testimony of those brave grandparents.............

Big Teddy