instigated by the American Battle Monuments Commission which has sole authority over the cemetery in The Netherlands. Local authorities are planning to attempt to place a monument outside the cemetery.

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/08/limburgse-statenleden-willen-tijdelijke-herdenkingsplek-voor-zwarte-bevrijders-a4912174

Why in the world would anyone WANT to even bother to do this? To whom, to what kind of person, could this even be worth thinking about? Are some people’s lives really that empty?

some people’s lives really that empty?"

Not empty, filled with hate.

and were so butt hurt about a robt e lee statue that they killed heather heyer and formed the "proud boys"

here in the States.

Statues of R.E. Lee were nothing unusual where I grew up in Virginia. On the other hand, without the publicity, maybe 20 people in the States would have known what these pitiful garden slugs were even up to. Probably more Nederlanders than Americans would have known. I’m in that country once a week, and speak the language. And yet, this is the first I’ve heard of it.

"Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past."