Monument
Another notable monument, apart from the 6 metres (20 ft) tower built over the Signal de Botrange, erected in High Fens at Gèyeté within the municipal boundary of Sart and Jalhay is in memory of eight American airmen who were the crew of 3 c-47 that collided in flight on 6 April 1945 due to fog and killed them. The memorial consists of a three-bladed propeller erected on a quartzite pedestal, with a cross erected next to it with the inscription "For the American airmen."
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as a compass-needle.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
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—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)