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The Story of the Red Star Line and Emigration
Speaking from his own family's experience as immigrants from the Ukraine to the US, Ambassador Sam Fox along with Vice-Mayor Philip Heylen of Antwerp opened the exhibit, “Antwerp = America = Red Star Line,” at the National Maritime Museum in Antwerp on March 19. The exhibit is open until the end of 2008.
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From Explorer Ships to Partnerships
Belgian-American musician Toots Thielemans (on the picture with Ambassador Sam Fox) gave a surprising interpretation of the Belgian and American national anthems on his harmonica in the presence of numerous Belgian and American personalities living in Belgium
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Memorial Day in Belgium
On Memorial Day Belgians and Americans visit the graves of individual fallen Americans Flanders Field, where 368 Americans killed in World War I are buried; at Henri-Chappelle, where 7,992 from World War II are buried, and at the Ardennes, where 5,329 more from World War II lay at rest.
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More News from the Embassy
Ambassador Fox: "Belgium is a country with which we have a very special relationship going back 176 years"
As of January 12, 2009, all persons traveling to the US on the VWP will need to register electronically
You can now participate in a web chat on the 2008 election. Learn here how to do this.
U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Sam Fox spoke at three Memorial Day ceremonies on May 24 and 25, 2008
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