Bridges
#clmooctober keyword: bridges
Bridges connect. Our bridge The Crossing doesn’t connect just parts of our city across a river, it also connects now with the liberation of our city in WWII.
As the text on sign says, the new bridge (called The Crossing) is on the spot where US soldiers in rubber dinghies under heavy machine gun fire crossed the river Waal in order to secure the bridge at Nijmegen on both sides. This was during Market Garden.
Now, every evening, 365 days per year, two volunteers (often veterans) cross the bridge at dawn, when the lights on the bridge go on two by two, each light commemorating a live of a US soldier that was lost during this fight.
More info here: www.sunsetmarch.nl/en/explanation/
Bridges
#clmooctober keyword: bridges
Bridges connect. Our bridge The Crossing doesn’t connect just parts of our city across a river, it also connects now with the liberation of our city in WWII.
As the text on sign says, the new bridge (called The Crossing) is on the spot where US soldiers in rubber dinghies under heavy machine gun fire crossed the river Waal in order to secure the bridge at Nijmegen on both sides. This was during Market Garden.
Now, every evening, 365 days per year, two volunteers (often veterans) cross the bridge at dawn, when the lights on the bridge go on two by two, each light commemorating a live of a US soldier that was lost during this fight.
More info here: www.sunsetmarch.nl/en/explanation/