Thanks again for the heads up SC. I kind of figured the WW2 thing but didnโt realized it took longer for one part of so the the whole country could be free. I was raised in the Dutch town Fulton Illinois along the Mississippi River (boarding the states of Illinois and Iowa). Needless to say we were not educated on Dutch history. Once I took the time to try to read it off the internet and found thereโs so much to read
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. I want to say, I think, Iโm only 4th, in part, generation Dutch. I would like to visit there someday for it seems to be a pretty country.
You're most welcome! Americans generally like The Netherlands, so you'd probably enjoy it, certainly if you have an added interest in it due to your heritage.
Funny enough I myself don't know much of our history, hihi. That's because we are taught that in elementary school, so at a certain point all that knowledge gets in the background.
But we do have quite the interesting history. An English friend of mine started a thing with me on the Anglo-Dutch war. I couldn't remember a thing of it, so I read up on it. In short it was the English raiding our loaded East India Company ships, burning down villages and raiding on their way out.
Our revenge... we set out with our ships, sailed up the Thames, trashed a number of their navy's ships, and took their navy's flagship "The Royal Charles" with us on the way home.
That still makes me giggle, hihi.
To top if off, we destroyed the ship as it lay too deep in waters and as such we couldn't use it as our coast is shallow. So most of it was used as firewood, lol.
There's only one part left which is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
To me this is hilarious as my friend of course knew about this all, but he was teasing me with how they beat us, but in the end we got a great revenge.
We still occasionally drag this up to both our amusement, grin.