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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 01:31 PM Jul 2014

The sadness hanging over The Netherlands right now has reached my office at home...

Watching on CNN as the funeral procession makes it's way through Hilversum and seeing all the grieving people lining up along the route to honor their fallen countrymen...

...gotta go, have something in my eyes.

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The sadness hanging over The Netherlands right now has reached my office at home... (Original Post) ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2014 OP
The harpist...so beautiful... ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2014 #1
Dignified, respectful, powerful pinboy3niner Jul 2014 #2
Live stream, if anyone alsame Jul 2014 #3
We are all Dutch today riverwalker Jul 2014 #4

riverwalker

(8,694 posts)
4. We are all Dutch today
Wed Jul 23, 2014, 02:44 PM
Jul 2014

watching the coverage, knowing it is worldwide, I feel like the world wants to hold its arms around the Netherlands, embrace them, hold them up, let them know they are not alone. I have cried so much today.

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