Happy VE (Victory in Europe) Day. It is also dad's birthday and he always says that his best birthday ever was May 8th, 1945.
G'day, Eleanor!
This actually is something of a very sore point for me.
Please note the following fact from WWII History...
"On May 2 German forces in Italy and southern and western Austria stopped fighting and
on May 7, after 3 1/2 years of war with the U.S.,
Nazi Germany surrendered unconditionally. "
Despite that being the actual end of the war with the Germany/Italy Axis, our President Harry Truman
waited until the next day to declare VE Day.
Um...the 8th *happened* to be HIS birthday!
So why did I care about that little delay?
Because May 7, 1945 was my 11th birthday,
and I thus wuz robbed..:((