De Geest Overwint The Indo Project will be hosting this year’s annual Commemoration and Liberation Ball on Saturday, August 10, 2024, at the Elks Lodge in Buena Park, California. This important event is about our shared heritage and a tribute to generations that came before us. The event’s theme is “De Geest Overwint” which in…
By Eric Morgan This recipient of the “Order of Orange-Nassau” (in 2008, as recognition by the Dutch government for her service on behalf of its people), does not need much of an introduction to the readers of The Indo Project (or “TIP”). Though she is Dutch-born from Dutch parents, Henny Neys, inspired by her late husband Alan (who…
The following speech is by Jesse Eijsbroek, given at the commemoration ceremony in San Francisco on August 2nd, 2015: In June of 1942, the Japanese Empire launched an ambitious military logistics project to connect the existing railways between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma. The line was considered difficult—navigating through hilly jungle terrain and around many…