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Thu Apr-07-05 07:42 PM
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60 years ago today my dad&uncles were with the Canadian army in Holland. |
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Mopping up the last of the master race in the Lowlands,as the Americans and British to the south did the same, as did the Soviets to the east. They lost a lot of friends in the finals days to fanatics that would not surrender.
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Thu Apr-07-05 07:47 PM
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1. So your dad and uncles are part of the reason the Dutch still send |
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us tulips every year. Did they ever get back to the Netherlands?
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Thu Apr-07-05 07:51 PM
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2. None of them ever did,and they are all gone now. |
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All my life they never talked about it,then within a few years of their passing they all started telling the stories. I wish I could have heard more.
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Thu Apr-07-05 08:13 PM
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5. I thought the tulips were because |
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We designated a hospital part of Holland so the prince could be born in Holland.
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Thu Apr-07-05 08:15 PM
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6. Canada liberated Holland at the cost of thousands of lives. |
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That is the reason for the tulips.
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Thu Apr-07-05 08:19 PM
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No disrespect but it was because the QUeen was born in Ottawa... http://affordabledesigns.ca/travelann/ta02.htmlThat's one link see if you can find another
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Thu Apr-07-05 08:55 PM
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8. We actually get two sets of tulips |
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The Queen sends us some and the government sends us some. I've seen that they are a thank you from the people of the Netherlands for liberating them during the war. I'll have to search for a link.
They say that Canadians are still treated very well in the Netherlands - they remember what we did for them.
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Thu Apr-07-05 09:32 PM
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Thu Apr-07-05 09:36 PM
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Thu Apr-07-05 09:44 PM
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11. Heyhey my brother was in Holland a few times, |
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he said it's amazing how they still treat Canadians,even the young Dutch people have an honest friendship with us.
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Thu Apr-07-05 09:46 PM
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12. Yeah, I've heard that too |
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Thu Apr-07-05 07:53 PM
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... my father was in a US camp outside of Fontainbleu for processing after spending nine months in a German prisoner of war camp north of Berlin.
There is a story about him and his friends sneaking out one night and ending up drunk and in the middle of the floor show at Le Crazy Horse in Paris....
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Thu Apr-07-05 08:09 PM
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4. Sixty years ago today... |
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my grandfather was in Germany, pushing eastward to trap the remaining Nazi forces in between the pincers of the US/UK forces and the Soviets. From what he told me there were several German units that surrendered en masse, because they knew they'd get better treatment from the Western Allies.
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