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• Title: We Remember: Honoring American born veterans
• Text: ... massive and spontaneous reaction of that liberated nation as their people poured into the streets in honor df American born veterans. To the Dutch, those veterans were truly the means in God's hand to liberate those who had suffered so much and so long and who had been captiv...

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• Description: Letters to Pieter and Adriana Termaat about the presentation of the Erasmus medallion to Allied War Veterans.
• Text: ...e Ministry of Foreign Affairs is honoured to present a sroo:U momento in the form of an Erasmus medallion to the Allied War Veterans who are visiting the NetluJrlands in 1984 to commemorate the allied invasion of Europe and the fighting in the Netherlands forty years ago. Erasmus is believ...

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• Text: ...18, let alone to have fought in them, could, wittingly, wish to go to war again." War, however, was precisely what some veterans yearned for. They missed the idealism and camaraderie of wartime, the thrill ofliving dangerously and the license to kill. Such were Hitler's lusts. &qu...

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• Text: ...aroun:i you from small openin~s a fine spray would shoot up which y ou could not escape from. 11ie often passed Bronbeek, a veteran's home for the men retired from the Roy al Netherlands East Indies Army, in their black uniforms. Dad always spoke with great respect about them. Going n...

Booklet commemorating the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi occupation in World War II.