Operation Market Garden came right through this part of the Netherlands in the fall of 1944 see http://worldwar2database.com/html/arnhem.htm for further information about this unsuccessful campaign. I won't be pulled into a debate about Montgomery vs. Patton, as that is untenable. Instead, Eric, Eileen, and I went to Arnhem and its surrounds to look for a museum in Montgomery's HQ for this campaign. We were stopped everywhere we tried to go and noticed a ton of people on foot. Strange. This is a bicycle kind of country.
We got home and discovered that they were people participating in memorial walks (10, 15, 20, and 40 km options) for the same operation. It explains why we couldn't get to the museum. And it said that there are a ton of people who remember the campaign. The highlight for me will be next weekend, when they have a race of WWII vehicles to a bridge in Arnhem. How cool is that?
***to those of you wondering, yes, I know I lived very close to Gettysburg and never saw that battle reenacted, but the Karen of today would have liked that opportunity :-)
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