Old Hickory Veterans travel to the Netherlands to Celebrate 75th Anniversary of Liberation

Col. Wes Morrison, the North Carolina Army National Guard Chief of Staff, looks out over the rows of headstones at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium on Sept. 15, 2019, where more than 300 Old Hickory Soldiers who died during WWII are buried. A group of NCNG Soldiers, WWII veterans, and their families traveled to the Netherlands to participate in several celebrations commemorating the 75th Liberation of Belgium and the Netherlands by 30th Inf. Div. “Old Hickory” Soldiers in September of 1944, visited the graves of several 30th Soldiers where flowers were laid and a sand ceremony was performed where sand from Omaha Beach, France is rubbed into the headstone to make the name more prominent when friends and families visit a gravesite. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell)

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2019-09-15

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U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Junell

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