At the Margraten Cemetery, in the village of Margraten, Netherlands

 Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11th, for honoring military veterans who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. (At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.)

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For the people of a small village in the Netherlands, every day is Memorial Day for the thousands of American soldiers buried nearby. For more than seven decades, the people of Margraten have personally cared for the graves of Americans killed in World War II – 8,300 of them – in a military cemetery outside the town. Each one is adopted by a Dutch, Belgian or even German family who makes sure that the service member buried there is remembered. The thousands of families deliver flowers on their soldier’s birthday or date of death, and decorate the graves on Christmas and Memorial Day. (In close cooperation with the American Battle Monuments Commission, the (non-profit) Fields of Honor Foundation organizes the The Faces of Margraten tribute at the cemetery. 

+To this day, there is still a waiting list of grateful citizens eager to become memorial caretakers.