For the past couple of days, a Dutch Hercules C-130 and an Australian Boeing C-17 have landed several times at Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands with the remains of the people who were killed in the Malaysia Airlines crash.
On the news, you've probalby seen the thousands of people who jammed roadsides and overpasses, and the traffic that stopped along some highways. It's the way the Dutch population paid tribute to the solemn procession that rolled slowly to the city of Hilversum, where forensic experts were waiting to identify the remains.
Russell Shorto of Time Magazine describes why the Dutch mourn this way.
(thanks Michael)
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