# Canadian WWII vets get warm welcome in the Netherlands **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-vets-get-warm-welcome-in-the-netherlands/1017843 "2025-05-04T01:23:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-vets-get-warm-welcome-in-the-netherlands/1017843/1 "2025-05-04T01:23:20Z")
The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands has come. Canadian WWII vets, mostly centenarians, are getting a warm welcome from the Dutch. > [@](#): > > # Remarkable scenes of gratitude greet Canadian war veterans in the Netherlands > > ## A delegation of veterans aged 96 to 105 being celebrated as heroes by the Dutch [https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7525962](https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7525962) And a Dutch soccer team is recognizing Canada’s military on their jerseys this year. > **[Dutch soccer club honours Canadian military on new uniforms](https://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/article/dutch-soccer-club-honours-canadian-military-on-new-uniforms/)** > > A soccer club in the Netherlands is honouring the Canadian military on the 80th anniversary of that country's liberation during the Second World War. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-vets-get-warm-welcome-in-the-netherlands/1017843/2 "2025-05-04T02:43:13Z")
There were like 21 Vets there, that’s way more than I imagined it could be. And the Dutch provided each with two medical attendants. During the ceremony the head fellow, stopped the proceeding dead, so the vets could be moved from the now direct sunshine into the shade of the trees! It was clear they had planned for everything. It was very moving to watch. There is an ongoing project to learn histories of, and get a photo of, every Canadian serviceman buried in the war cemetery. A face to a name as it were. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-wwii-vets-get-warm-welcome-in-the-netherlands/1017843/3 "2025-05-04T03:09:36Z")
The youngest was 96 16 in 1945. Musta lied about his age.