The Forever Promise Project:

Honoring and Remembering Fallen WWII American Soldiers in the Netherlands

In 1945, following the end of WWII, a letter arrived at City Hall in Maastricht, Netherlands. It was from a young American war widow, Mabel Rose Feil. She wrote asking for a photograph of her late husband’s grave. “He was my whole life,” Feil wrote. “I will be grateful to you all the days of my life if you can get me a snapshot of his grave.” Pvt. Warren F. Feil’s remains were buried along with more than 20,000 war dead in the Netherlands American Cemetery in the village of Margraten, near Maastricht, just fourteen miles from the German border. 

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