Today in The Netherlands we celebrate Liberation Day!
75 years of freedom. That is quite something, we now have 2 generations who don't know what war is. I hope we can keep it that way for a long time to come!

No festivals this year, we will have to do it at home, like our King's Day, and Remembrance Day yesterday.

Gefeliciteerd!!!

Thank you!!

Graag gedaan

Being that I’m part Dutch, on my dad’s side, I never realized that the Netherlands was liberated so HAPPY LIBERATION DAY !

Well, yeah, when WW2 was over :) Large part of the country was already freed a few months earlier, but the north had it tough. They went through the "Hunger Winter", and many starved to death. They all tried to get to the south where the farms are as there it was liberated and more food. But at some point most farms were full up and couldn't house/feed more. Some resorted to eating flower bulbs.
It was a dreadful winter for many...
But then on 5 May the whole of the country was finally liberated!

And thank you! And since you're part Dutch... happy Liberation Day for you as well!

Thanks again for the heads up SC. I kind of figured the WW2 thing but didn’t realized it took longer for one part of so the the whole country could be free. I was raised in the Dutch town Fulton Illinois along the Mississippi River (boarding the states of Illinois and Iowa). Needless to say we were not educated on Dutch history. Once I took the time to try to read it off the internet and found there’s so much to read . I want to say, I think, I’m only 4th, in part, generation Dutch. I would like to visit there someday for it seems to be a pretty country.

You're most welcome! Americans generally like The Netherlands, so you'd probably enjoy it, certainly if you have an added interest in it due to your heritage.
Funny enough I myself don't know much of our history, hihi. That's because we are taught that in elementary school, so at a certain point all that knowledge gets in the background.
But we do have quite the interesting history. An English friend of mine started a thing with me on the Anglo-Dutch war. I couldn't remember a thing of it, so I read up on it. In short it was the English raiding our loaded East India Company ships, burning down villages and raiding on their way out.
Our revenge... we set out with our ships, sailed up the Thames, trashed a number of their navy's ships, and took their navy's flagship "The Royal Charles" with us on the way home.
That still makes me giggle, hihi.
To top if off, we destroyed the ship as it lay too deep in waters and as such we couldn't use it as our coast is shallow. So most of it was used as firewood, lol.
There's only one part left which is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
To me this is hilarious as my friend of course knew about this all, but he was teasing me with how they beat us, but in the end we got a great revenge.
We still occasionally drag this up to both our amusement, grin.

Thanks for the education SC and you’re right that is funny . That’s all I have too, an American education though the Dutch did help our country is some ways. The only thing I know is that New York was once New Amsterdam. On my mom’s side I’m English and Scottish.

We indeed founded NYC. For some reason I looked into that the other day.
I learnt that Wall Street is called that because we Dutch built a wall there to either keep out the English or Indians. The wall got quite big, towers in them for soldiers etc.

And Broadway is literally translated from the Dutch 'Brede Weg" which means "Broad Way" (Weg = Dutch word for "road").
So all very logical, but I never thought of that. There were a few more things but I cannot remember now.

Dutch, English & Scottish. A nice rich heritage!

Neat . Thanks again . Yeah, I do have a rich heritage . On my mother’s mother’s side of the family I can become, if I wanted to, a member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas and further back a member of the Daughters of the American Revolutionary War.

agree ... do hope those younger... do not have to think about wars ...

happy belated Liberation Day!

Thank you!