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Walking arm-in-arm with the Dutch queen, American World War II veteran Kenneth Thayer returned to the tiny Dutch village he and his brothers in arms from the 30th Infantry Division liberated from Nazi occupation exactly 80 years ago. Thayer, now 99, visited Mesch, a tiny village of about 350 people in the hills close to the Dutch borders with Belgium and Germany, and was greeted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima for a ceremony beginning nearly a year of events marking the anniversary of the country’s liberation. After Thayer and the king and queen were driven in a vintage militar…

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