Trump declares May 8 as 'Victory Day' for World War II: 'Going to start celebrating our victories again!'

Fox News ^ | 5/2/2025 | Elizabeth Pritchett

[cowboyusa]

Buzz off ungrateful foreigner.

[Captain Walker]

Something else that was surprising was learning that the Army had its own massive navy and still has a sizable one today.

If you know this, then you would know about the Four Chaplains; these men were aboard the USAT Dorchester when it was torpedoed in the Atlantic on 03 Feb 1943.

Interestingly, Father Washington, the Catholic chaplain on the ship, had tried to get into the Navy as a chaplain; he had been declined for poor eyesight. (He had a bad eye as the result of an accident with a BB gun.)

Apparently, he covered his bad eye during his physical for the Army and the doctor was supposedly too busy to catch it. (I can't help but think of the irony that he ended up losing his life at sea anyway, despite having been unable to have joined the Navy.)

[Captain Walker]

I thi9nk you are mistaken it was the MacArthur comand that had its own publicity department—if corespondents did not tow the line then then did not get the juicy details. It was a machine indeed.

It was HST's observation, not mine. I do, however, think there is some merit to it. (How many people know about the enormous role that the US Army played in the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific?)

[ro_dreaming]

You’re an idiot. It’s Victory in Europe day. EUROPE. That has nothing to do with the Pacific.

And, if you believe what you typed, you need to go visit the other site

www.democraticunderground.com

They’re more to your liking.

[Fiji Hill]

I have always called Nov. 11 Armistice Day, and we should go back to that. We should also get rid of “Presidents’ Day”—I don’t want to have to celebrate Biden, Obama and Carter along with Washington, Reagan and Trump.