Holland America Line shared the story of a U.S. Army veteran Amy Roberts on Veterans Day.

She took one of its cruises that included Norway and then went on to the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten to visit the grave of her uncle, Edward A. Reinehr, who had died in World War II.

It was a trip her late father had always wanted to make, according to the cruise line, and Roberts became the first member of her family to ever visit the cemetery.

While she was there, she met Eduard, the Dutch adopter who had looked after her uncle’s memorial through the cemetery’s Forever Promise tradition, in which Dutch families take care of the graves and honor the soldiers on holidays.

Holland America described the tradition as now 80 years old.

The experience had special meaning for Roberts who is a veteran herself, the line said, as it let her reflect on her own service and on the uncle she never had the chance to meet.

Roberts is also one of three veteran artists Holland America worked with earlier this year, through the United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance, on a collection of 12 commemorative cards with Crane Stationery.