A total of 8,301 American soldiers – many of them young – lie buried beneath the white gravestones of the only American cemetery in the Netherlands, in the southern Limburg town of Margraten. Those buried here gave their lives in World War II for Europe’s freedom. In 1945, to honor and thank them, the Dutch government gave the United States a perpetual lease on the ground for the cemetery. In Margraten and the surrounding area, the sacrifices and achievements of those who fell are remembered in many ways.