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Dutch royals, WWII veterans mark 80th anniversary of Netherlands Liberation

(12 Sep 2024) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Mesch, Netherlands - 12 September 2024 1. Pan of Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and Kenneth Thayer, a 99-year-old WWII veteran arriving at ceremony 2. Various of Dutch royals and Thayer 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenneth Thayer, WWII veteran: "The lieutenant picked me to take a reconnaissance in the evening to see what was up ahead near Maastricht... So I went up ahead and there was nothing, and I could listen (unintelligible). I came back and I said lieutenant: 'There's nothing there. And so we went up the next day and we found that I had accidentally crossed the border, and we didn't think anything of it, you know, it was just another day on the front line." 4. Volunteers walking by with a flame of Freedom 5. Wide of the ceremony visitors 6. Wide of Thayer talking 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenneth Thayer, WWII veteran: "And of course, the Dutch people were always tops with us. They were always tops with us. And, I think it's a wonderful thing, what they're doing to my country. It's my country that they're talking about. And and we're not such bad people after all." 8. Various of royal couple greeting people 9. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Jef Tewissen, 74, resident: “I have only heard good things from my father about the Americans.” 10. Tilt up of people holding American flag 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenneth Thayer, WWII veteran: "First of all, it wasn't just me and... look at the hundreds and hundreds of guys who didn't make it. They're not here, you know." 12. Wide of the visitors singing at the ceremony 13. Children holding Dutch flags STORYLINE: Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer returned Thursday to the tiny Dutch village he and his brothers in arms from the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupation exactly 80 years ago. Thayer, now 99, visited Mesch, a tiny village of about 350 people in the hills close to the Dutch borders with Belgium and Germany, and was greeted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima for a ceremony beginning nearly a year of events marking the anniversary of the country's liberation. After Thayer and the king and queen were driven in a vintage military truck into the village along a mud track through orchards and fields, Maxima reached out and gave a hand of support to Thayer as he walked to his seat to watch the ceremony paying tribute to the American liberators. American troops from the 30th Infantry Division, known as Old Hickory, were among Allied forces that liberated parts of Belgium and the southern Netherlands from German occupation in September 1944. Thayer still recalls the day. He told The Associated Press he was sent out on a reconnaissance mission the night before the liberation and saw no Germans. “And so we went up the next day and we found that I had accidentally crossed the border and, we didn’t think anything of it, you know, it was just another day on the front line,” he said. What felt like another day of work for soldiers who had fought their way from the beaches of Normandy, through northern France and Belgium to cross the Netherlands on their way into Germany is forever woven into the history of the village as the end of more than four years of Nazi occupation. While Thayer was one of the guests of honor at the event, he paid tribute to his comrades who didn't make it through the war and said he was representing them. “It wasn’t just me... Look at the hundreds and hundreds of guys who didn't make it. They’re not here, you know,” he said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...