From the July 16th Wilmington (NC) Star-News by Sue Book, New Bern (NC) Sun Journal.
There is an American cemetery in Margraten, Netherlands, with the bodies of some 12,000 of its soldiers buried there. Margraten citizens started an activity that led to the adoption of the American graves that has continued so that now nearly all have been "adopted." These adoptions are then passed down generation to generation.
Adopters visit the graves often, place flowers on them on special days and, in general, stand-in for American families too far away to visit their loved ones.
Lili Pasteur, of Joppe, Netherlands, about a four-hour round trip away, is one of those adoptees. She proudly held up a photo of John Jasper Lewis of New Bern, NC, a World War II Army Air Corps serviceman killed in action over her country on the day she was born.
This Is a Mighty Nice Thing They're Doing. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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