Holland America Veteran Visits Uncle’s WWII Grave

Holland America Line shared the story of a U.S. Army veteran Amy Roberts on Veterans Day.

She took one of its cruises that included Norway and then went on to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten to visit the grave of her uncle, Edward A. Reinehr, who had died in World War II.

It was a trip her late father had always wanted to make, according to the cruise line, and Roberts became the first member of her family to ever visit the cemetery.

While she was there, she met Eduard, the Dutch adopter who had looked after her uncle’s memorial through the cemetery’s Forever Promise tradition, in which Dutch families take care of the graves and honor the soldiers on holidays.

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