Today is `Liberty Day` in my country, "Bevrijdingsdag", a national holiday.
May 5 is the day World War II ended in The Netherlands.
It`s been 59 years now. But some old Dutch humans still cannot look at German humans
without thinking of the war. Just like some old American humans cannot look at Japanese humans
without thinking of Pear Harbour.
We`re still paying for the terrible mistakes of our grandhumans.
Hardly any of the jewish humans from our area came back from the concentration camps.
Much of our old historic city was shot and burned to pieces in 1945.
Thousands of humans from our area were forced to work in German factories
to take the places of Germans who were fighting the war.
Nobody was the same after that. It`s a big scar. It still is.
But this is 2004. And we were born after the big war.
My humans and I have good friends in Germany. We all feel the same about the past.
Liberty is more than being free from an enemy. It`s also being free from the past.
I`m ready to have some fun!