“Thank You For Everything…” | 4th Grand Falls Scouts & Venturers

Jul 25th “Thank You For Everything…”

For our final stop in our profoundly life-changing battlefields tour through both World Wars we ended up at the Dutch Liberation Museum. The perfect end to our journey, and the perfect introduction to our stay in the Netherlands.

The museum itself was fantastic. Great exhibits, very informative, and exceptionally well done. As great as it was my memory of the museum is really filled with the final exhibit we visited. On my way out of the museum I was called over by another Scouter to the atrium, where there was a single white tree in the middle of the room with paper maple leaves hanging from it. As I drew closer I realized that each and every leaf was a message of thanks to Canada. To say it was moving is a gross understatement as the tree brought us all, youth and adults, to tears. After more than 70 years the Dutch are still saying thank you to our soldiers who gave everything for their freedom; there is a LOT we as Canadians can learn from our Dutch friends. This was the best possible end for this portion of our journey. I will never forget it.