In addition to being “special” and “enjoying”, it is of course also about the symbolic value, as the runners also acknowledge. The idea is that the fire will spread across the Netherlands just as freedom did in 1945. “It symbolizes the freedom we now have in the Netherlands. It cannot be taken for granted and we must cherish it.” And a woman tells that she walked with her daughter. “I couldn’t keep up with her, she had a good pace,” she jokes, “but it feels like I symbolically passed the fire on to the new generation.
Walking from Wageningen to Schoonrewoerd with liberation fire: ‘It symbolizes the freedom we should cherish’
