Posted on 05/07/2020 11:20:33 PM PDT by knighthawk
We’re only at the beginning, but these images show us how we will surely end.
This is Times Square on V-E Day, 75 years ago today, newly alive and overrun with ecstatic New Yorkers. No longer would the lights on Broadway be dimmed, the food be rationed, nor would the city endure a nightly curfew at 1 a.m., as opposed to midnight for the rest of the nation — a kindness conferred by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia.
Presiding over it all was Liberty’s Sister, a 15-ton replica of the Statue of Liberty — her own torch and floodlights gone dark during the war, save for two occasions: first to mark the D-Day invasion of Normandy in 1944, and on May 8, 1945, to celebrate the surrender of Nazi Germany.
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Cool article. I enjoyed the lead photo which on the right, a woman’s sign is slightly folded to read “Germ Surrenders”.
Thank you - I skimmed it and will read later.
History has shown that we ALWAYS survive pandemics. Hopefully we won’t ever have to face the Black Death, but even the 1918 Pandemic was followed by the Roaring 20’s.
If we can just keep the likes of Biden and his ilk out of the White House, or they will use this virus for all manner of government rule and bail outs.
Different America, back then.
A much better Nation, with much better people who shared a common heritage, love of Country, traditions, and culture.
My father and my uncles came home to celebrations, married, raised their families, and lived out the rest of their lives.
I can guarantee they’d never in a million years suspect that what we are seeing now from the dems would ever have happened.
They’d say “Hey... we just kicked the CRAP outta this ideology...What the Hell???”
“Bing’s home page is featuring a picture of VE Day”
I use Bing because of their home page pictures.
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