Construction of the Geronimo monument
The Airborne Committee Eerde was founded in 1970.
In those years American veterans frequently came to the Netherlands and they would visit Eerde, among other places. At the time, there was hardly anything organized to welcome them in the way they deserved.
The veterans often visited the mill and were always very welcome at the Van Riel family. But the groups kept getting bigger and the visits more intensive. Five civilians who had been closely involved in the resistance in Eerde felt that the reception of veterans should be better organized. They founded the Airborne Committee Eerde and built a monument in honor of the liberators.
Read more about the origins of the monument on the website of the Brabant Historical Information Centre.
