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Today, July 17th 2017, three years after all the passengers and crew of the MH17 plane were murdered above the skies of Ukraine, the Netherlands has unveiled the lasting memorial site for the victims of that crash (foreign and domestic) and many many family members and loved ones attended, reading out the names of one or more of the people that they lost that day.
The monument is in the loop of the memorial forest that has been planted, one tree for every victim, which of course is still not a full forest but a sea of yearling trees.
The memorial service put the families of the victims front and center, the dignitaries were seated way back because the families are the ones for whom this ceremony and this spot truly is.