Happy weekend everyone! Today I have a not so common post for you, because I'm taking you back in time. At least, that's where I felt like living in today...
If I say '70 years ago...' you would probably think of World War II. Yes indeed guys, that's what I want to talk about. We all know the interesting stories about this dramatic period and, as for me, I never can get enough of it. I'm very interested in this topic and I want to know everything about it. From time to time I love to watch WWII movies and documentaries and to hear elderly people telling their experiences and stories. I always try to imagine what it was like to be living back then. It must have been so terrifying (more than terrifying, and even billion times worse).
Ok, so WWII, we all know about that, but why do I want to write a post about it? Well, exactly 70 years ago Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem) started. It was the biggest airborne operation in history. Over 40,000 American, British and Polish soldiers tried to liberate the Netherlands by breaking through German lines and seize several bridges in the occupied country. Unfortunately this plan didn't have the expected outcome, because the bridge in Arnhem was proved to be 'a bridge too far'. Only the southern part of Holland was liberated and because of the 'failure' of Operation Market Garden, the provinces above the great rivers experienced the Hongerwinter (Hunger Winter, or, the Dutch famine of 1944). To commemorate the 70th Anniversary, a troop recreated Operation Market Garden by undertaking a march over the Lower Rhine in memory of the soldiers who didn't return. Just like the real Operation, the troop crossed each of the nine bridges, meaning that they crossed my little village too! Something interesting finally happened here today haha! All the people of this little-(unknown)-Dutch-country-village gathered together and celebrated this commemoration with waving flags. All week long I've been seeing soldiers in jeeps and tanks crossing the roads, recreating the liberation. So funny and very impressive at the same time.
Unexpectedly I have an evening off tonight, yay! I'm so tired of working all week and since I'm feeling a little nostalgic today, I think I'm going to snuggle up in bed with a blanket and a cup of hot tea and watch the movie 'A Bridge Too Far', which tells the story of Operation Market Garden. A funny fact: my mother was at work when they shot this movie, she saw it all happening from her workplace haha.
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