Friends,

The last couple of weeks there has been a lot of talking going on about how to take the Campaigns into 2004 from here on. The name of a possible Campaign that I brought up time and time again in these talks was the name of "Market Garden".

As we all know the Campaign Central Command decided not to allow new "Official Site Campaigns" in 2003., but Jim also stated that "he was NOT planning such limitations for the alternate laguage sites".

With this in mind I wrote "Well a simple conclusion comes to mind .....

I'll end my journey into the Market Garden Campaign series right here, and I will take the idea with me to the Dutch forum.

Market Garden here we come"

And this is exactly what we did..... we took the idea of a Market Campaign with us to the Dutch Language Site and started up a Campaign called "Remember Market Garden". This resulted in a lot of fast, but very good and constructive talks with the Dutch speaking community over here. The talks resulted in a very loud YES !!!!!! (actually it was a loud "JA !!!!", but who cares ) to the idea of a Marked Garden Campaign in the Dutch Language Site. 14 Dutch speaking members signed up for the Campaign !!!...... for such small countries like Belgium and The Netherlands this is quite a large number of members that get involved.

And this is where we stand today :

We will have an official Campaign called "Remember Market Garden" on the Dutch Language Site.

The rules and regulations have been made and we are now waiting for those rules to be published on the Dutch site.


So the Campaign is on !! But on the Dutch Language Site.

Since our Market Garden banners caught the eyes of our international members, we've been asked "a million times" if members of the international community could join in too........ Wel the answer to this question is .......

YES, YOU CAN !!!

When the rules and regulations are revealed on the Dutch Language Site, we will start a new topic in the Campaign Forum. In this topic we will provide the rules and regs in English and offer you the chance to sign in on the Campaign. Signing in will have to take place in the Dutch Language Section, but we'll guide you

Next to that topic our "Remember Market Garden" headquarters will translate all official documents about the Campaign in English, so that those who are interested can join us in this Campaign to remember.

What has "Remember Market Garden" got to offer :
- A wonderful Group Build while sharing fun, techniques and atmosphere
- A growing list of links and books dealing with the original Operation Market Garden
- A weekly "/newspaper" where the "progress of our troops" will be reported in words and pictures
- A special Campaign ribbon for those who participated
- A chance to wear the beautiful Market Garden sig banners with us
- The possibility to develop the official Campaign Ribbon / Medal

So if you want to join....you can, just wait for the official publications in the Campaign Forum.

We hope that you will join us in this "Campaign to remember"

Cool!

Am I in????---"Ja"!!

I look forward to this one, and for being able to participate with our Dutch friends in their forum. That in itself is a true first for me, and adds a special incentive to an already wonderful idea.

Great job on getting this one off the ground. Congrats.

Steve

I'm in as well....Ja!!!!!!!!!.... Can we now have Dutch or Flemish language lessons on-line please?Jim #:-)

In an effort to multi-cultural
Indien de timing gelijk heeft - ik ben in

(hope I didn't butcher it too badly)

Slodder,

Ongeloofelijk knap? Heb jij Nederlands/Vlaamse familie leden??

hehehehe, Just in case, Nice, do you have Dutch/Flemish family members?

Ronny
Nope - not genealogical connection for me. Very diverse background though, French exchange students, German exchange students, Sister fluent in German...
and the Big A has definitely kept me aware of how small a world it is and that my little world is not at the center of it.

A lot of wisdom in there, Scott !

Hum... I think I already have a dio idea for this one... and for once, I'd realy like to bring that dio to completion !!!!! I think I'll be in !

Friends,

we're happy to have you with us on this Campaign. The participants from Belgium and The Netherlands welcome :

- WeWillHold
- Jimbrae
- Slodder
- Penpen

As we say over here : Welkom aan boord

I bet you can figure that out yourself without me translating it

We hope many more people will join in on this Campaign. It's gonna be something special !

Ola People

It`s great to see the first enlistees from Outside the dutch speaking languages.. Welcome In our group of people that will soon step into the footsteps of the men who Fought there 60 years ago. Are you guys ready to board the C47 and Horsa`s for one of the biggest operations in WW2?? I hope you guys have good ideas and I sure like to see progress shots of the projects you have thought out.

Let more people enlist the more the better

Hey Guys, this sounds like a good time. Count me in.

Patrick

Hi there Danny

What dates do you plan for the Campaign? I'd certainly be interested in joining, if there's a way of doing a 1/48 scale aircraft... :-)

As I expect you can guess, there's a lot of interest in your Remember Market Garden Campaign on A-UK. :-)

I'm trying to devote a section of A-UK to Campaigns and Group Builds so it would be great to include as many details there as possible, to keep everyone up to date. :-)

All the best

Rowan

Hi guys, sounds like alot of fun. I'm sure I'll sign up for the tour of duty. I really envy you guys being able to walk the actual battlesites. My last name is Vanlandingham and as I was growing up I was told that it was a Dutch/German name. Maybe one of you kind gents on the Dutch Language Site can tell me if that is a common name over there. There is not a whole lot of us over here and I know very little of my ancestery.

PLMP110, Patrick, welcome on board. Glad to have you with us again.

Merlin,

I'm sure that the rules and regs will make it possible for you to join.... Just be a bit more patient ...... you'll know the rules and dates within no time.

Hello vrienden. Ik zou aan deze Market Garden Campaign graag deelnemen. Dit klinkt zoals het plezier zijn zal! Ik hoop dat ik steek hou. ...

In case that made no sense.... I would like to participate in this campaign!!!

Jeff

Waterboy and JRNelson,

welcome on board too ! We'll make this a great Campaign.

Heb jul plek vir nog een? Ik wil graag ook mee doen in Remember Market Garden!

Dankie

Welcome Savage !!

I hope we have the rules and regulations online after the weekend. The rules and regs are ready, but it takes a bit of work to prepare the Dutch Site for our first Campaign in Dutch....

So a few more days of patience ....and then we can start our research and preparations big time.

Damn....everyone will be speaking Dutch in no time. hehe

Danny - Keep up the great leadership!

Jim

Haha, I will Jim, I will...... but in this Campaign it takes two to tango.... Don't forget General Faust who's in this with me. I couldn't do without him. He's got the brains and I've got the looks #:-)

Not to mention an arrogance from here to Beirut :-) :-) :-)

Phantom Major

The rules and regs will be posted soon believe me All I can say as second in command welcome to the group and I hope you will have a good time in this campaign.

The dutch will give a sign when the rules and regs are up

Danny,

Now I think I´ve had enough persuation. No need to send gorillas.

I´m in.

:-)

Toni

Great !!!!! I welcome you on board.... another great modeler just joined in !!!

About the Gorilla ..... hehe ..... Are you telling me there is a RMG undergound at work ?