JAPANESE FORMAL SURRENDER SEPT.2,1945

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FORMAL JAPANESE SURRENDER SEPT.2,1945
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In the morning of 2 September 1945, more that two weeks after acceping the Allies terms, Japan formally surrendered. The ceremonies, less than half an hour long, took place on board the battleship USS Missouri, anchored with other United States' and British ships in Tokyo Bay. It was an extensively photographed occasion, and, despite overcast weather, generated many memorable images.

www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/japansur/js-8.htm

FLY THOSE FLAGS DEAR HEARTS
GOD BLESS AMERICA
GOD BLESS OUR BRAVE TROOPS
GOD BLESS THE GREATEST GENERATION WHO GAVE UP SO MUCH.

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NO ONE REMEMBERS VJ DAY???

AM I THE ONLY ONE. TSSSSSKKK!!!

JIMMY

[Fran Gyomory]

I was onl 2 1/2 at the time but I do remember VJ Day as a day of celebration for our family. All of my dad's brothers served in WWII and one did no come home. My grandmother grieved over him for many years. I was named for him as I was born just months after we lost him.
God bless all of those souls who died for our freedom.....and I wonder what they think of our world today as they look down on us from Heaven!!!

[wheezie]

I'm just a baby - wasn't born untill a week later.

[Joan]

:)I was almost 3 years old at the time, and I remember my mother being so happy as my father would be coming home after being in the Navy.

What I do remember is his homecoming. My mother and I were waiting on the steps of Parkchester for him one night. My grandparents were upstairs.

My mother said "your father will be wearing a white hat and his blue navy suit" as I was always being shown pictures of him and kissing them. Sure enough around the bend came this handsome man who was my father and he had a big box in his hand which turned out to be a doll for me. We all kissed and hugged. I still remember that doll. She had a blue dress and red hair, and we named her Gloria. That night there was some celebration in our house!

Thank God he and his brother and many of his friends DID come home, as some did not and those are the men we pray for.

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THE SHAME ISTHEY DONT TEACH THIS STUFF IN SCHOOL ANYMORE. THATS A DISGRACE.
ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO SERVED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
NOTHING IS KNOWN ABOUT THOSE DIFFICULT TIMES BY OUR YOUTH TODAY.
IF IT WASNT FOR MY BROTHERS SENDING HOME PEACOATS AND ARMY AND NAVY UNDERWEAR, AND NAVY CREW SWEATERS, AND ARMY IKE JACKETS, ME AND MY SISTER TESS WOULDNT OF HAD HARDLY ANY CLOTHES TO WEAR TO SCHOOL.
EVERY FAMILY WAS AFFECTED, I HAD 3 OLDER BROTHERS AND MY MOTHERS BROTHER WHO LIVED WITH US WHO SERVED THIS COUNTRY.
MY BROTHER BILLY AND MY UNCLE JOEY SERVED IN THE U.S.ARMY
AND MY BROTHER FREDDY AND MY LATE BROTHER TOMMY SERVED IN THE US NAVY IN THE PACIFIC.

MY BROTHER BILLY LANDED ON UTAH BEACH ON D-DAY JUNE 6,1944 WITH THE 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION, HE FOUGHT ALL THE WAY TO GERMANYS HUERTGEN FOREST (BLOODY HUERTGEN), WHERE HE FOUGHT FOR MONTHS AND THEN FROM A NAZI SHELLBURST SCHRAPNEL TOOK OFF PART OF HIS SKULL.
HE HAS A SILVER PLATE IN HIS HEAD, AND THANK GOD HE IS STILL WITH US .
HE JUST CELEBRATED HIS 82ND BIRTHDAY.

PEOPLE WERE AMERICAN THEN WE ALL WERE AMERICAN WE WERE DRAWN TOGETHER.
I REMEMBER SCRAP DRIVES FOR RUBBER (OLD TIRES,) NEWSPAPERS, METAL, ALL US KIDS WORKED HARD AS IT MADE US FEEL WE WERE DOING SOMETHING FOR OUR TROOPS.
I REMEMBER MY MOTHER WHENEVER SHE SAW THE OLD WOMAN WHO DELIVERED TELEGRAMS TURN INTO LAFONTAINE AVE AND AS SHE WALKED TOWARDS US BETWEEN 178ST AND 179ST.
MY POOR MOTHER WOULD GET SO NERVOUS THAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR HER.
THREE TIMES SHE CAME WITH TELEGRAMS NOTIFYING HER THAT MY BROTHER BILLY WAS WOUNDED AS HE FOUGHT TOWARDS GERMANY, HE WAS SENT BACK TWICE UNTIL HE RECEIVED THAT AWFUL HEAD WOUND.

MONTHS LATER WHEN HE RETURN TO AMERICA HE RECUPERATED AT HALLORAN HOSPITAL ON STATEN ISLAND AND I REMEMBER WHEN WE WENT TO VISIT HIM, MY AUNT JENNY WAS WITH US, AND AS WE RODE THE BUS IN THE CAMP THERE WERE GERMAN P.O.Ws CUTTING SOD AND SMOKING PIPES W/NO GUARDS OR VERY FEW GUARDS (THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN BASICALLY, WELL ANYWAY MY AUNT WAS YELLING OUT OF THE BUS 'YOU STINKING NAZI HEINIE S.O.Bs."

ILL NEVER FORGET THAT, THEY DIDNT WANT TO GO HOME THEY HAD THREE SQUARE MEALS, SMOKES, AND THEY WERE MOSTLY ON THEIR OWN.
OUR BOYS WHO WERE P.O.Ws OF THE GERMANS WERE BEING STARVED AND BEATEN AND KILLED.
BY THOSE 'STINKING' NAZIS BASTA-Ds.

WOW A LOT OF STUFF CAME UP THINKING ABOUT THOSE TERRIBLE TIMES.

JIMMY, WITH TEARS IN MY OLD BAGGY 'BLUE EYES.