“Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Roll up your sleeves and start sponging!” Miss Nina Pin encourages her group of 8 students as they clean the white monument with a bird on it. The green stripes are difficult to remove, they sigh. “But you know what we’re doing it for, right?” Nina says. “You are the people of Leerdam who ensure that all civilian victims and people from the resistance can be nicely commemorated.”
Eighth graders scrub monument for May 4: ‘Why do grown-ups argue over nothing?’
