We stopped at met a lovely family who’s cornfield was a drop zone for easy company in market garden. The elderly gentleman was a young boy when easy company landed and the family was so excited to see easy company the little boy (now elderly man) pumped water for them until the pump ran dry. He collected all the items you see in the cornfields and made a museum. They had samples of what the gliders were made of. Very scary to think they got up in the air. He had one of the original parachutes from east company he found buried in the cornfield.
On the bus ride, Chris told a story about how the Dutch adopt gravesites of American soldiers and there is a waiting list to this day. It’s a tradition started as they didn’t want their mothers to worry that the graves would go unattended. Many relationships between American and Dutch families have formed as a result.