Robert G. Cole, 1939 Howitzer, United States Military Academy Archives
Robert M. Edsel is the founder and chairman of the Monuments Men and Women Foundation and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men. His new book,Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and A Forever Promise Forged in World War II, tells the story of the Dutch grave adoption program and the American heroes it honors. Find out more about the Forever Promise Project at ForeverPromise. org.
With the end of World War II in Europe, letters from American families seeking information about their loved ones began arriving at town halls across the southern Netherlands. Postmarked from big cities and small towns, from those of privilege and those barely scraping by, each one contained a heartbreaking request similar to that of a young widow from Demopolis, Alabama: My husband…was kille...
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