More than 8,300 Americans lie in an American cemetery in Maastricht, Holland.
Each one has been adopted by a Dutch family who tends his grave and keeps his memory alive to this day. To honor him for giving his life in the liberation of Holland in 1944.
Twelve young men from Leelanau County lost their lives in World War II, so this briefly chronicles who they were and where and when they died, because few today in their own county remember them or their sacrifice.
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