{"id":4681,"date":"2020-09-18T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/?page_id=4681"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T13:13:18","slug":"2020-onthulling-gerestaureerde-glas-in-lood-raam-vertegenwoordiger-rksv-frans-essers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.driel-polen.nl\/en\/herdenkingen\/herdenkingen-2015-2024\/2020-onthulling-gerestaureerde-glas-in-lood-raam-vertegenwoordiger-rksv-frans-essers\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Unveiling restored stained glass window Representative RKSV Driel \u2013 Frans Essers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unveiling restored stained glass window
\n<\/strong>Representative RKSV Driel \u2013 Frans Essers
\n<\/strong>18 September 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear members present,<\/p>\n

It is really very special that I can stand here.
\nNo, I am not a veteran.
\nI was not involved in or experienced the war.
\nI was also not involved in the Christmas card action of the young people of Driel in 1946.
\nI am from the time when everything went a little better.
\nNo, I do not represent any official organization
\nI am just the representative of a football club.
\nA football club that has an extremely special relationship with the Polish parachutists.
\nI find it a great honour that I can stand here.<\/p>\n

In this special time when many meetings have been cancelled that we can be together is also special.
\nOr is it perhaps not so special?
\nDon\u2019t we have a very special reason to be here together.
\nDon\u2019t we share more with each other than it might seem.
\nYes, I think that we share more than many others may think.
\nWe find ourselves at this moment in very special times.
\nNow \u202676 years ago the times that people found themselves in were also very special.
\nTimes that remained anchored in the memory of those times and commemorations in later years.
\nMemories on the negative that is called \u201cwar\u201d.
\nSo now we in freedom the events that we never want to experience.
\nAnd also \u2026 we do not stay still long enough to reflect how\u2026., negative experiences positive consequences can have.
\nFor example Father Poelman, who at the end of the war with the Parachute Brigade still present in our village, was very much Concerned about the future of the young people of the village.
\nPastor Poelman who \u2026.. maybe here where we now stand\u00a0 \u2026. tried to make his ideas accessible to the young people of Driel in a way that offered them a future. A future with perspective.
\nA future that together with you the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade\u00a0 was made possible.<\/p>\n

75 years ago the war came to an end and we could feel ourselves free.
\nWe were allowed to become united again.
\nAnd immediately that became possible a sports club was started up.
\nThe word unify perfectly describes what Pastor Poelman and those who worked to establish our club, Mr Baltussen, Mr Kock and Mr Hoogsteder had envisaged.
\nNamely: active together;
\nto have an objective together;
\nand primarily to be sportive.<\/p>\n

Just as General Stanislaw Sosabowski and his men also had done.
\nWorking together, keeping strong together and working towards one goal together.
\nAnd for them the goal was \u201cFreeing Warsaw and building up a future\u201c.
\nFor those who developed our club it was that: feel free and embrace the future that is offered to you.
\nThose who founded our club chose for the colours white and red as club colours. The colours of the Polish flag.
\nThere on the breast came the \u201cV\u201d for victory.
\nBefore the first commemoration in the village by the committee Driel-Poland the football club honoured with the choice of its club colours the Polish liberators. Later a parachute was added to the club logo.
\nAnd that image is inseparably bound to our club RKSV Driel.
\nEven in the higher levels of the national football federation this is considered very special.
\nThe Royal Dutch Football Federation (KNVB) gave special attention in September 2019.
\nIn a deep article about the special relationship between our club and the Polish Parachute Brigade.<\/p>\n

Under the heading RSKV Driel will never forget the Polish liberators\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 <\/strong>a detailed description was made of the relationship between 1st<\/sup> Polish Independent Parachute Brigade and our football club RSKV Driel.
\n<\/em>Here attention was first given to the club colours that were chosen when our club was set up.
\nFurther in the article there was the comment<\/p>\n

\u201c40 years later a parachute was added to the club logo. That is an image that sticks when you walk around RSKV Driel sports park. From coffee cups to beer tapping. And from champion flag to jubilee shirt<\/strong>\u201d\u00a0 (end of quotation)<\/p>\n

The connection cannot be given more clearly.
\nOur club RKSV Driel stands for Roman Catholic Sports Society Driel. And is therefore not just for football.
\nYoung people should be made aware that sporting together and doing things together is the best medicine to come to a better and more healthy future.
\nGiven the very exceptional time we are now experiencing (Corvid 19) the commemorations of 75 years freedom will not take place.
\nThis ceremony will take place in small groups which we find is appropriate. Because at that time it already was about young people and the future.
\nThe future doesn\u2019t stand still.<\/p>\n

Our liberators showed us this in 1945.
\nThat showed Driel\u2019s children in 1946 with their Christmas card action to the Polish liberators.
\nThat showed the Polish military by their contribution to the rebuilding of the destroyed boys school that had previously provided them with shelter.
\nMrs Cora Baltussen showed this by her continued\u00a0 support for the 1st<\/sup> Polish Independent Parachute Brigade and their General Stanis\u0142aw Sosabowski.
\nThat the future hasn\u2019t remained still can be clearly seen from our club RKSV Driel.
\nPastor Poelman and those who established our club wanted to give young people an active and sportive future and the Polish veterans provided the financial contribution which enabled the building of a new school —- where young people would get a future and a perspective.
\nAnd this in addition to what they had already done in the wartime struggle in and around Driel.<\/p>\n

75 freedom \u2026\u2026 75 years RKVS Driel
\nThese are two milestones that cannot be separated from each other.
\nTwo milestones that are bound together in a window that we will shortly see in its full glory.
\nA window that stood and stands for appreciation
\nAppreciation that is getting a new life through RKSV Driel.
\nA window that will get a future here in this Information Centre.<\/p>\n

Our club with its white red heart and sheltered by a parachute has in the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a075 years of its existence always had an important place and been given social recognition in the Driel\u2019s community.
\nThis can partly be seen in the large number of young people in our club. Young people who are also present during the annual commemoration.
\nAlso today they are present.
\nIn this way our club shows its social involvement and commitment.
\nOur social commitment can be partly seen in the restauration of this unique stain glass window.<\/p>\n

75 year freedom \u2026.. 75 year RKSV Driel
\nA Christmas card initiative of the young people
\nA hopeful reaction from the Polish military.
\nA remaining and continuing memory in glass
\nColoured glass that as the light changes calls up changing feelings
\nVibrations of history reaching into the future
\nThis is beautiful to see
\nIt is wonderful<\/p>\n

And everything that has happened and taken place
\nAnd everything that touches us and joins us together, I remain and I think many as well<\/p>\n

Look around with wonder and keep wondering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank you for your attention
\nFrank Essers
\nOn behalf of RKSV Driel\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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