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Project connects Americans to the Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery
The Forever Promise Project links over 300 American families with Dutch adopters who care for graves of U.S. WWII service members at the Netherlands American Cemetery.
- The Dallas-based Monuments Men and Women Foundation built the Forever Promise Project, with over 300 families seeking contact with Dutch adopters, said Edsel, author and promoter.
- Years ago local residents began adopting graves at Margraten, with the Margraten town council formalizing the process and names on the walls for the missing later opened for adoption.
- Lisa and Guido Meijers adopted Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. William Durham `W.D.` West Jr.'s marker several years ago and visit about once a month, while June West Brandt and Allison Brandt Woods met them through the initiative.
- Only about 20% to 30% of adopters contact relatives, Ton Hermes said, and the adoption program is so popular that there is a waiting list for about 8,300 graves and 1,700 markers.
- Graves have stayed in the same families as Dutch families who adopt graves pass stewardship across generations, while adopters stress remembrance through flowers and correspondence, answering the question of thanking liberators.
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Project connects Americans to Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery
DALLAS — In the decades since June West Brandt's older brother was killed in World War II, her kind and artistic sibling who loved to play boogie-woogie on the piano has never been far from her mind. So she was…
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Project connects Americans to the Dutch people who honor their relatives at World War II cemetery
A new initiative aims to increase the number of connections between the family members of those buried and remembered at a World War II cemetery in the Netherlands and the Dutch people who have adopted each one.
In the decades since June West Brandt's older brother died in World War II, she has never forgotten him, remembering him as a kind and artistic boy who loved to play boogie-woogie on the piano. That's why June was happy to discover that he is also being remembered by a Dutch couple who regularly visits a marker for him in a cemetery in Holland.
Project links Americans to Dutch who adopt WWII soldiers’ graves
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