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VJ Day
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77 years ago today, President Truman announced the receipt of the unconditional surrender agreement from the government of Japan ending WWII. I was 7 years old at the time.
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One year ago we surrendered to the Taliban.
A big difference in leadership don't you think ?
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
...We're still breathing dead Japs...
Big Time.
Thank you for the reminder. I was seven years old at the time also. I well remember the celebration in the streets of Detroit. Two older cousins and two uncles were in the military at the time.
My grand father was with the Sea Bees in the South Pacific. Grandma was a cook at Camp Abbot. Thank God we knew how to win a war back then.
Thank goodness for the bomb.If it had came down to an invasion of Japan ,many of our dads would have never came home.
We didn't surrender to the Taliban, Biden did.
"We're still breathing dead Japs."
Come to think of it you probably are right.
Well, there was a condition, and Truman was wise to accept it.
Brad Steele
It was Douglas MacArthur’s suggestion to spare the emperor that got them to except the surrender I believe. It was wise on Truman’s part to agree to MacArthur’s suggestion. after all we had used up all the atom bombs on the first two cities.
Kings don't kill kings or they might be next.The guy was a little god to The Japanese people. Douglas was just seeing the big picture. The Same thing happen to Santa Anna at the battle of San Jacinto. That Guy murdered capture Texans and Sam Houston let him live. Remember the ruling Elites have special privileges the common people do not have.
Remember might makes right just ask Putin for references.
serf
https://grandlodgeoftexas.org/sam-houston-and-santa-anna/
Over the years, articles regarding Houston’s treatment of Santa Anna at San Jacinto, reportedly taken from the files of early newspapers, have appeared in our Masonic publications. In the main, these articles have attributed Houston’s refusal to permit the execution of Santa Anna to his having given Houston the Masonic sign of distress. As a result of these articles, it now seems to be the accepted belief of many members of the fraternity that the humane treatment accorded Santa Anna by Houston was in direct response to the giving of the sign.
Serf--That's what we were told in Arkansas, too. There are other instances cited where a captive's life was spared that way. During the Civil War, it was documented several times.
serf WHY does there allways have to be a conspiracy? can't life just happen wether it be right or wrong......
History is sometimes inconvenient. The fact is that Japan rejected the demand for unconditional surrender, demanding Hirohito be kept as titular head of state. Truman, to his credit, backed off of the demand, but like any politician, claimed something that did not actually occur. Dugout Doug may have claimed credit in any number of his false and self-aggrandizing missives, but he had nothing to do with it. The butcher would have been very content killing a million Americans and 5 million Japanese in his quest for glory.
Brad Steele
My dad flew "The Hump" in a C47. He flew cargo from his base in India, over the Himalayas, to bases in China. They flew guns, and 55-gallon drums of gasoline. Uncle Sam figured, every Jap killed by a Chinaman is one less Jap that we have to kill. Dad made 74 flights over The Hump and it is a miracle his plane didn't crash, as so many others did. The snow covered terrain that they flew over was named The Aluminum Highway, for all the aluminum aircraft parts sparkling there in sun in the rocks and snow.
My dad's cousin, Darrell Lewis was killed in the Phillippines, as Macarthur fulfilled his promise "I shall return."
Dad hated Macarthur and called him "Dugout Doug."
Rest in Peace, Uncle Buddy.