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    Default Dutch woman has tended raf hero's grave for 45 years

    A DUTCH woman who has tended a British airman’s grave for 45 years has finally been honoured for her devotion.

    Tiny Claessen, 79, first noticed the neglected headstone of Flight Sergeant Henry Hiscox while visiting her own father’s grave nearby.

    She began weeding and cleaning the grave out of respect for the fallen war hero and has returned every weekend for five decades to leave fresh flowers there.


    http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/...e-for-45-years

    In England the fashion is to smash them up, urinate on them or spray swastikas on them.......perhaps Nazi occupation might have done England some good.

    Quite a remarkable women.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Liffrea View Post

    In England the fashion is to smash them up, urinate on them or spray swastikas on them.......
    WHAT!?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Liffrea View Post
    A DUTCH woman who has tended a British airman’s grave for 45 years has finally been honoured for her devotion.

    Tiny Claessen, 79, first noticed the neglected headstone of Flight Sergeant Henry Hiscox while visiting her own father’s grave nearby.

    She began weeding and cleaning the grave out of respect for the fallen war hero and has returned every weekend for five decades to leave fresh flowers there.


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    In England the fashion is to smash them up, urinate on them or spray swastikas on them.......perhaps Nazi occupation might have done England some good.

    Quite a remarkable women.
    Here we have the Netherlands American Cemetery at Margraten and for what I have heard the majority of all graves have been lovingly adopted by mainly locals (also people from other parts of the country) who assist in tending the graves.
    We have a lot of those cemeteries here for instance the Airborne War Cemetery at Oosterbeek, the Holten War Cemetery (Canadian) at Holten and even a German one at Ysselsteyn and I think that the opportunity should be given to adopt those graves as well.

    Note: according to the Oorlogsgravenstichting (that concerns itself with the care for war graves) adoption is possible.
    The fact is.. the knowledge that they can be adopted is just relatively unknown.



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    Originally Posted by Riippumaton
    WHAT!?
    Just as I wrote desecration of war graves and memorials isn’t uncommon I’m afraid.
    I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
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    Quote Originally Posted by Liffrea View Post
    Just as I wrote desecration of war graves and memorials isn’t uncommon I’m afraid.
    Why, who?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Liffrea View Post
    Just as I wrote desecration of war graves and memorials isn’t uncommon I’m afraid.
    Generally I would agree. Though you wont see it 'round my way. Our local war memorial is right near the Orange Lodge.

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    One of the war cemeteries in our country:

    The Ereveld Grebbeberg (Field of Honour Grebbeberg).
    Here 799 soldiers and 1 civilian rest in piece after having sacrificed their lives during the 1940 Battle of Grebbeberg.









    Until 1945 the site was shared by both Dutch and German victims but after the liberation the Germans were exhumed and brought to a new war cemetery at Ysselsteyn.




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    Originally Posted by Riippumaton
    Why,
    Depends on whose doing it.

    who?
    Take your pick, some blame neo-Nazis, Anarchists, Muslims, we’ve had a drunk student in court for urinating over a war memorial.
    I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
    “truth”, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.

    J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Nietzsche

    To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
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