VJ Day

[Whirlaway]

Today is the 65th anniversary of the surrender of Japan.

Thanks to all vets (WWII and other) and family.

God I miss the Greatest Generation...sad to see them go.

[tsrv4me]

I remember it well and What I did ....and YES thank you to all that helped make this country what it is today and I hope doesnt CHANGE

[LazurusLong]

I just found a newspaper headline from that day that my grandfather had stored away. he sent me an entire box of "stuff" he put away and mailed it to me when I was back in high school and he knew his health was failing.

Simply amazing some of the things he kept..... He's been dead over 40 years now. He served in between WWI and WWII and after Pearl Harbor, rather than let him re-enlist, the NAVY sent him there to help repair the ships ASAP. He was a master electrician and my mom still has letters he wrote to her mother.

[cptjohnstone]

my dad helped design the B29 that dropped the bomb. I knew it for a long time but my widowed mother did not know why they were transferred to Denver until a couple of years ago when she watched a show about Truman, it was top secret I told her

and I second the the greatest generation, it is amazing what they pulled off

[CoHorn]

God bless all those fine men and women. They truly are the greatest generation.

[DFK Hunter]

My Dad and Uncle were scheduled to be on transports for operation Olympic, the Invasion of Hoshu. When the Bomb was dropped they hugged and cried for they felt their lives were spared.

My Dad entered the Navy in January of 1942, by that February he was on a freighter off the coast Florida when the ship just astern blew up from a U-Boat torpedo. By June of that year half the men in his Boot Camp Company were killed by U-Boars off the the Atlantic coast in what the Germans called "Happy Time." None of the ships he served on were ever hit, but he had that feeling of being a fugitive from the law of averages. Yeah, he was very glad when it was over. So was my Mom!