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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Continued from yesterday.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

4 posted on 08/12/2015 4:21:15 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Flash! Japan surrenders!

Flash! Never mind! (0:50)

MBS

5 posted on 08/12/2015 4:22:00 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

I hope that we can all grasp, at least in some small degree, the outpouring of raw emotion produced by the end of the war.

Words are great, but they don’t quite communicate that emotion as well as the film footage. If I can find the time, I want to post links to as much of that as I can find in the coming days.

I’m trying to get my mind around how the timeline of celebrations unfolded. I’ve found some VJ Day footage that is labeled August 12th. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwfqdzzZPx0, which came from here: https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.23976 ...It’s incredibly stirring listening to Stars and Stripes Forever and seeing the pure joy on the faces of the people!)

And yesterday’s Times showed celebrations taking place already on the 10th and the 11th?

Yet, V-J Day is remembered as being on the 14th, correct?

27 posted on 08/12/2015 12:46:21 PM PDT by EternalVigilance

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