27-05-2025
- General
- Wall Street Journal
Don't Forget to Give Canadian Vets Their Due
Almar Latour makes several salient observations about America's influence in the world in 'Brand America Never Goes Out of Style' (op-ed, May 20). Yet the notion that the Americans led the expulsion of Nazi forces from the Netherlands isn't right. While American troops participated along with British, Polish and Dutch resistance forces, the Canadian First Army played the dominant role. Canadian Gen. Charles Foulkes accepted the surrender of all German forces under the command of Gen. Johannes Blaskowitz at Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen on May 5, 1945.
I have committed it to memory because it's personal: My late father was part of a large contingent of Canadian veterans from the war invited to the Netherlands in 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Liberation Day.
