792 Remember Us; The Greater Journey

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Rick Steves

Rick Steves, Public Radio, 721132, Europe, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Npr, Travel

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🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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We hear how the Dutch continue to remember and honor the servicemen who helped liberate their towns in 1945. And we revisit a conversation with the late historian David McCullough about the influential "Americans in Paris" of the 19th century, who returned home with skills that helped transform life in the US.

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0:00.0	The citizens of a Dutch town near the German border made a promise some 80 years ago at the end of World War II.
0:08.0	Leave your boys with us. We will watch over them like our own forever, and they have done that.
0:15.0	Coming up, Robert Edsel introduces us to the stories of the people from Margratden and the soldiers who gave their lives to free them
0:21.7	from more than four years of Nazi tyranny. In the 19th century, hundreds of Americans went to Paris
0:27.7	to study and develop skills that would help them turn the United States into a much-admired
0:32.5	center of innovation. History is about more than politics and war. History is about art and music and architecture
0:40.8	and medicine and science, all that the human mind and the human spirit can achieve. Historian
0:47.6	David McCullough reminds us how France has been a major influence on the new world. Stay with us
0:52.9	for quite an inspiring hour ahead.
0:55.3	It's Travel with Rick Steves.
1:00.6	Not all Americans went west.
1:02.9	Coming up on today's Travel with Rick Steves,
1:05.0	we paid tribute to the historian David McCullough.
1:08.2	He discovered that hundreds of people
1:09.9	who would number among America's most
1:11.5	important inventors and scientists and thinkers and artists went out of their way to travel
1:16.3	east to France in the 19th century. That's where they would develop skills and an outlook on life
1:22.4	that would help make a better life back home for all Americans. Let's start the hour looking at what made America great back in the 20th century, as it joined
1:31.4	forces with our allies to help defeat the Nazi tyranny of the Second World War.
1:37.2	We all want to be remembered.
1:39.2	It's just human nature.
1:40.9	In his travels and research into the stories of the servicemen and women of World War II,
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