During a visit to Europe it's self - evident that veterans visit the gravesites of their comrads who are killed in action.

It is very emotional to visit a gravesite (after almost 60 years) of someone that you knew so well. Knew so well under very difficult circumstances that build strong friendships. For a lot of them it was a very short friendship because they were killed in action, but they never faded out of the memories of those who survived and who now come to the American War Cemetery in Margraten (the Netherlands) to lay flowers on their last resting places.
Above: Robert Bowen (l) and Carmen Gisi are talking together perceptible moved. It is very emotional to visit the gravesite of someone you knew around his twenties when you are 88 and 78 years old. They realised that those boys never had the chance to raise a family.

Above: Robert Bowen-Carmen Gisi and Bob Lott on Margraten.

Right: Carmen Gisi

Below : Bob Lott lays flowers near the gravesite of Larry Donoho.

Among the gravesites of their comrads of the 401st Glider Infantery Regiment they also visited the gravesite from their commander Frank Trudeau. In the orchard, where Trudeau was killed, Robert Bowen told me that it was impossible to remove his body for about 23 days.

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