[Billthedrill]

Aw, heck, what do they know about celebrating in Plzen?

Oh, yeah. Forgot.

[centurion316]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPnTCEg6Wo

Lots of good footage of those last days of the war in Czechoslovakia

[centurion316]

Fur Alles, das Krieg ist forbei.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iNJ6gBqGy0

[Argus]

This is where Vlasov’s troops tried to surrender to the Americans, I believe.

[jttpwalsh]

I was out for a walk, yesterday, and saw an elderly gentleman sitting on a bench, wearing a WW II Veteran hat (Navy, I think). I thanked him for his service, and in the humble way of his generation, he replied “It was an honor”. Lord have mercy, what men !