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The Dutch are good people. See this posting (from the Facebook 'Curiously unusual Wonders' group but also verified elsewhere - copied as I could not get a link from Facebook).
The Children of Oosterbeek For eighty years, the children of a small Dutch town have kept a promise to soldiers who never made it home. In Oosterbeek, near Arnhem, there’s a quiet cemetery lined with 1,759 white headstones. Beneath them rest the airborne soldiers who fell from the skies in September 1944 — men who fought for a bridge, and for a freedom they would never live to see. When the war ended and the guns went silent, the people of Oosterbeek made a vow: that these men would never be forgotten. And they’ve kept that promise in a remarkable way — by passing it on to their children. Since 1945, every local schoolchild has “adopted” a grave. They learn the soldier’s name, his age, his story — and on Remembrance Day, they walk to the cemetery with flowers in hand. There, they lay blossoms on the headstones and stand in silence. They are known simply as the Flower Children. This year marks the 80th time they’ve done it. Little ones, some barely six years old, stand before the graves of men who died long before their grandparents were born. They brush away fallen leaves, straighten the flowers, and whisper thank you in soft voices — to soldiers from Britain, Poland, and beyond, who gave everything for a country not their own. Families of those soldiers still travel from around the world to witness it. They see children tending to the graves of men they never knew — and for a moment, sorrow turns into something gentler: gratitude that stretches across generations. Freedom has always come at a cost. But in Oosterbeek, they’ve found a way to honor that cost forever — by teaching each new generation that remembrance lives not only in monuments or ceremonies, but in small, tender acts of care, passed from one small hand to another. The soldiers once fell from the sky. The children keep them from ever fading into it.
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Here it is - photo I took recently.
United Nations building in Geneva, 12 August 2025
August 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Meanwhile in Ukraine, US satellite data cut off:
March 6, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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March 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM