Letter from David (Dave) Harper to Mr. Lautens. The letter stated: D.A. Harper 563 Eastcot Road West Vancouver, B.C. Canada V7S 1 ES May 13, 1995 6. 30 a.m. I am dog-tired having arrived home from Amsterdam yesterday evening after a 16 hour portal to portal journey. My clothes are strewn all over the bedroom floor and the kitchen table is laden with gifts from thankful Netherlanders. But when I got home the North Shore News happened to be beside the chair I flopped down in and I read your article. Good on you! The enclosed was passed to me by my good friend Rose Hassen whose husband Mat was with us in Holland both when we entered Amsterdam on May 8, 1945 and again on this pilgrimage. It is all self-explained by Rose's note on the envelope [Note - Not scanned]. 'Feel free to use the note as you will if you will, but please leave us out of it--it might appear a little glory seeking, and God forbid that a couple of old codgers should seek that. I do not know the extent of the CBC coverage of the commemoration and celebration activities in Holland but no pictorial report could adequately reach i nto ~he eyes and heart . of the old woman wearing a Star of David necklace who threw her arms around me during a pause in our re-enactment of the entry into Amsterdam 50 years ago. She clutched me and did not let go. "Thank you, thank you, thank you amid a flood of tears. And what may I add was the pertinence of the remarks by a teacher saying that it was hard to talk about the war to children when violence is such a problem. Weren't we over there to stop violence? TelI her to get a book out of the library on the death camps. This is the kind of mushy verbage that is bringing our educational system into disrepute. And by the by, I was a teacher before the war so I am speaking from within the system. Thank God the Dutch care; they know what violence and hunger were. Thanks for your courage, Dave Harper Seaforth Hghlanders Attached to Media