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Old Tom has arrived in Veldhoven, the first time he has returned
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ANNEMARIE DEKKER
Welcome to Veldhoven Mr. Johnson. How was your journey?
OLD TOM
Hectic, very hectic.
ANNEMARIE DEKKER
And the jet lag?
OLD TOM
Not too bad. Please call me Tom.
ANNEMARIE DEKKER
Your first visit?
(OLD TOM shakes his head no.)
OLD TOM
I came in 1944, trucking fuel, ammo and supplies for General Patton’s Allied troops advancing east from Normandy.
ANNEMARIE DEKKER
The Red Ball Express?
OLD TOM nods. ANNEMARIE DEKKER stands up and grabs his hand appreciatively.
ANNEMARIE DEKKER
Your whole team is honored in our annual September reenactments of the allied Operation Market Garden.
OLD TOM
As the Americans, Canadians, and British liberated southern Holland in the fall of 1944, I stayed on as a quartermaster smuggling food and medicine to northern cities that
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