Elite units lead the parade in the center of The Hague, led by the king, minister Ollongren and armed forces commander Onno Eichelsheim.
The Veterans Parade is not an official military parade. “The veterans’ parade deliberately has a less bellicose appearance than a military parade,” said Klep. Perhaps it also fits more in the Dutch tradition’, he says. “The king no longer has a military role with us, but is in the parade as a symbol of the royal family’s bond with veterans.”
retirement status
“We may be the only country where military personnel can get veteran status,” says Klep. Of the more than 103,000 Dutch veterans, more than 25,000 are still employed by the Ministry of Defence. You usually have a mission of three to six months to restore the international legal order, so even if you still work at the Defense after that,” explains Klep. “But you are not a veteran after, for example, a mission for NATO. in the Baltic States.”
Klep thinks it is special that the Dutch veterans policy is so strongly focused on recognition and recognition. “There is hardly any country where this has been done with such emphasis. The emphasis is on ‘doing good in the world’. The Dutch government also has a more ultimate duty of care for veterans than in many other countries.
Source: NOS
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