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16-09-2017: Tim Ruijling

16-09-2017: Tim Ruijling

At the conclusion of the Sunset March September 16, 2017 the “veteran of the day” Colonel Jon P. Beale meets Steve Morgan who is a veteran of the fighting at Arnhem Bridge. Together they joined in the short but impressive ceremony at the end of Sunset March. Steve Morgan was very emotional and expressed his sincere gratitude to Jon Beale for the sacrifice of the 48 soldiers by saying: They died for me! After the ceremony he laid a wreath…

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15-09-2017. April 2018 for Dutch Veterans Bikers Association

15-09-2017. April 2018 for Dutch Veterans Bikers Association

DVBA has adopted the month April 2018 in the Sunset March schedule. This association will register a veteran, who is also a member of DVBA, for each day of that particular month. They will use a special code for their applications to walk the Sunset March. You are kindly requested to refrain from booking in April, 2018 to support this very special initiative.

August 5, 2017: Team Sunset March marched on behalf of 100 year 82 Division / All American

August 5, 2017: Team Sunset March marched on behalf of 100 year 82 Division / All American

  Team Sunset March at the monument after Sunset March on August 2017. The All American division was constituted, originally as the 82nd US Division, in the  National Army on August 5, 1917, shortly after the participation of the USA into World War1.  It was organized on 25 August 1917, at Camp Gordon, Georgia and served at the Western Front in the final months of the war. Since its initial members came from all 48 states, the division acquired the nickname All-American, which is the basis for…

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