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Thanks for the links, especially the one of your certification
of attendance to the ceremonies. I would imagine that would be
one of your most cherished possessions. Cheers.

"vigilence",
Like most folks on Free Republic, you are MUCH too kind.
Actually I did NOT attend the Tokyo Bay/USS Missouri surrender
ceremony, nor did anybody I know personally.
I was not even "a glimmer" in my father's (AND mother's) eye
for at least a decade after the surrender ceremony!

I (VOA) was just saying that that photo/.jpg image of that
card (documenting Balfour's attendence) from the surrender ceremony
was one of the most impressive and symbolic graphics I've seen
on the Internet.
And I suspect it's pretty much "politically incorrect" in today's world.

But I have to say, it was a great day when I stumbled onto the
US Navy website with all those great photos/images.
And that "rising sun" card is just one of the greatest (IMHO!).

Hello “vigilence”,

For your reference, here’s a direct link to another of my most enjoyable
Naval Historical images.
Followed by a link to the (basically) “front door” to the vault for
this great archive of US Naval images:

Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, USAAF (front), leader of
the raiding force, wires a Japanese medal to a 500-pound bomb, during
ceremonies on the flight deck of USS Hornet (CV-8), shortly before his
force of sixteen B-25B bombers took off for Japan.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g40000/g41191.jpg

People of the Doolittle Raid
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/misc-42/doolt-p.htm

(Don’t paint me as xenophobic regarding the Japanese...I’ve worked
with a number of very good Japanese scientists. Including one whose
father “risked all” by being a Christian conscientious objector that
refused to serve in Hirohito’s military in WWII.)

Naval Historical Center; Online Library of Selected Images
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm