Liberation Parade

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Liberation Parade

Transcript

I’m excited just like a kid being here. I really am. I just, for the last week at home. Oh, I hope I can, I hope I can make it, you know, and the excitement kept building and here I am. The children, oh they just look and wave. Then you start handing out Canadian flags. They, they’re just so thankful just, last little girl that we gave a flag to, she couldn’t speak English, but she asked her mother how to say thank you. So she turned around, “Thank you”.All the Veterans are so blij. What is blij? Happy.It’s really important for all of us because it’s our history and it defines who we are. Before I kind of knew, I didn’t really have a full idea of it. Now I understand that it’s so important to people and if without Canada this, it wouldn’t be like this. The world wouldn’t be the same as it is today.Thank you for your support and I appreciate it. I think the rest of the world, also. So thank you very much. Canada wordmark

Description

Canadian Veterans of the Liberation of the Netherlands, participate in the Liberation March Past in Wageningen. Set in the Dutch town where the 25th German Army officially surrendered, the celebratory parade this year marks the 70th anniversary of that historic moment.

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Medium:: Video
Owner:: Communications
Recorded:: May 5, 2015
Duration:: 1:56

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