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80 years of gratitude

Marcel Schmetz, a retired car mechanic in the Belgian Ardennes, turned his large warehouse into the Remember Museum 39-45 after retiring more than 30 years ago.
Schmetz was inspired to honor soldiers after witnessing the horrors at Henri-Chapelle cemetery as an 11-year-old in 1945, vowing to preserve their memory.
The museum holds military artifacts and serves as a meeting place where U.S. Veterans and their families reflect on wartime bonds, while Mathilde, Schmetz's wife, carefully maintains and passes on these memories.
Charles Shay, a 100-year-old American veteran who stormed the D-Day beaches and served in the 1st Infantry Division, has lived under Marie-Pascale Legrand's care in Normandy since 2018 as he became increasingly ill.
Despite commemorations for the 80th anniversary of V-E Day emphasizing enduring gratitude and unbreakable trans-Atlantic bonds, recent political tensions and trade disputes have put these alliances under significant pressure.

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80 YEARS OF GRATITUDE

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Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier

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The memory of blood dripping from trucks loaded with the mangled bodies of U.S. soldiers arriving at a nearby war cemetery straight from the battlefield in 1945 still gives 91-year-old Marcel Schmetz nightmares.

5 days ago·Waterloo, United States

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On the occasion of the commemoration of May 8, 1945, we go to Isère to discover the largest collection of American military vehicles in Europe. In an impressive cemetery in La Sône (Isère), 500 wrecks have been buried for 80 years. They were used to liberate France. Some of the recovered models are on auction for four days. They are priced at a price of 1,000 euros per car. As early as Thursday morning, some collectors had come across the countr…

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They walked like machines, only perceiving the next step. The death march ended in Volary

The place where suffering culminated. The death transport ended in Volary in the Prachatice region 80 years ago. American soldiers liberated the suffering Jewish women on May 5. 95 women who did not survive the long journey from Poland through Germany are buried in the local cemetery.

4 days ago·Čestlice, Czechia

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