Your play is not relevant to the topic .... For those who care about foreign affairs, today is the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Holland by the canadians, it is being celebrated with vigour and has been on CBC radio all morning, many stories being told ... here's one, Operation Manna - lancastermuseum.ca
Aircrews of Lancasters there were actually aussies i think, it was the RAAF, but they were canadian boots on the ground, around and about, also the RCAF flew tactical support in Typhoons, and by 5 May the job was done, the surrender of Wehrmacht forces in Holland accepted ... strong connection was made between the Netherlands and Canada, it continues to this day ... canuck troops brought home hundreds of war brides, dutch families immigrated here by the thousands, and continue to do so, an outsize proportion of farmers in this country are dutch, and they're good at it ... Holland is a top destination for canucks making an european trip, we tend to like the dutch and they tend to like us, many ties remain ... here's the story of how the dutch came to have a Seaforth Highlanders pipe band, notice how it is a dutch site, .nl - seaforth.nl
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