It is therefore a special moment for them when the 4500 kilo cannons are hoisted up with a large crane. They watch with excitement as their boyhood dream comes true. “Yes, now we have to hand it over,” says Henk Winkelhuis, co-initiator. There is applause as the guns are raised. “We just need to polish the gun,” says Marcel Oude Engbrink, securing the gun with two brackets so that no one can take it with them.