ABMC shows pride.Regarding your articles on American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other places people are buried, world-wide. It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. , I'd like to say that my wife, myself, my granddaughter and son-in-law (who serves with NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. in Germany) were extremely well received at Ardennes American Cemetery managed by the American Battle Monuments Commission near Liege liege In European feudal society, an unconditional bond between a man and his overlord. Thus, if a tenant held estates from various overlords, his obligations to his liege lord, to whom he had paid “liege homage,” were greater than his obligations to the other , Belgium. Ardennes Cemetery superintendent Hans Hooker welcomed us graciously gra·cious adj. 1. Characterized by kindness and warm courtesy. 2. Characterized by tact and propriety: responded to the insult with gracious humor. 3. in the immaculate grounds and accompanied us to the two graves we wished to lay flowers on as well as showing us the memorial chapel with the whole history of the battles of World War II in Europe. One could see he was very proud of that special place. Charles J. Mills, Portland, ME |
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