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Wednesday, August 15. 2007

On this day, 1945

VJ Day. Photo is the White House lawn, Aug. 15, 1945. (Thanks, Roger de H.) 

 

Posted by Bird Dog in History at 08:37 | Comments (16) | Trackbacks (0)

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Did I predict it or what?

MF comes through with what 98% of the printed media and 75% of the blogshere will not acknowledge today..why..hell all those folks are dead or in rest homes. Just 'cause they saved us from the Germans and the Japanese .. don't count

GREAT JOB BD!!!

So Utube up some Souza and march around the livingroom.
#1 Habu on 2007-08-15 08:45 (Reply)
Without you, would not have realized it.
#2 BD on 2007-08-15 08:51 (Reply)
But history like rust never sleeps..other events on this day:

1914 : Panama Canal open to traffic
1961 : Berlin Wall built
1935 : Will Rogers killed in plane crash
1969 : Woodstock music festival...Dylanologist asleep at the switch
#3 Habu on 2007-08-15 08:53 (Reply)
Woodstock. I was there. It sucked.
#3.1 BD on 2007-08-15 08:57 (Reply)
i wasn't there but i got the Directors Cut of it on DVD ...it sucks too
#3.1.1 Habu on 2007-08-15 10:40 (Reply)
The reason it sucks is because everyone in it is highly drug-impaired. The word "impaired" has a meaning. Think of Woodstock as being a festival of the (temporarily, deliberately) borderline 70 IQs. Dope just plain makes ya stupid. And that's fine, as an occasional relaxation. But, sheesh, to make it a lifestyle, how stupid.
#3.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-15 10:53 (Reply)
I was going on four years old then and my mom was expecting in a week with my next in line brother. She let me eat my first hot dog from a stand that had a steam table. It was in a small trailer parked in a gas station--a station that had an attendant who pumped gas, checked, tires and oil, washed the windows, had free maps, knew directions, and gave free air for tires bikes and balls (not like now). I lost one cousin, a Marine, and the two sons of very close friends of my family in the Pacific Theatre. RIP
#4 John Hetman on 2007-08-15 09:00 (Reply)
John,
To those we lost in the war.

When you go home
Tell them for us,and say
For your tomorrow
We gave our today
#4.1 Habu on 2007-08-15 10:43 (Reply)
JH, this is for your cousin & those two sons of family friends (I've linked it before --it's unforgettable).

http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson052402.asp
#5 buddy larsen on 2007-08-15 09:19 (Reply)
(snip from link)

"For most of my lifetime, I heard only rumors in my family of the tragedy that Victor's death entailed. His grandparents died shortly after in deep depression; my father, who had graduated from the same high school and college at the same time with him, and who joined the Marines with him (before transferring to the Army Air Corps to fly on 39 B-29 missions), rarely talked about how the loss had wrecked the close-knit Swedish farm family. Occasionally strange what-ifs surfaced — had he really been killed just hours before the mountain was stormed? Had he lived, would he have farmed the home place? Been a teacher? Had a family nearby our own?"
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-08-15 09:28 (Reply)
All of the words Lincoln spoke at Gettsburg are immortal, but these I find for all time, in all wars, to be the most eternally true.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth

If one knows nothing of that war or battle they surly know the meaning of these words spoken of battle and war.
#7 Habu on 2007-08-15 10:52 (Reply)
How soon we forget. Good words guys.
#8 phil on 2007-08-15 13:42 (Reply)
Ditto Phil,as soon as were done in Iraq ,we should go back and redo the little fishheads,they never stopped fighting the war. It,s called economic invasion and they've been kicking our ass for 30 years now. My apoligies to all our sino brethen.
#8.1 jappy on 2007-08-15 19:41 (Reply)
Yes let's. Britain is the only ally we need, let's kill all our others.
#8.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-15 20:08 (Reply)
OMG! Is that a cigarette in one of the soldier's mouth?
#9 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2007-08-15 20:58 (Reply)
Heavens! Smoking at the White House? What a lawless bunch we were!
#9.1 buddy larsen on 2007-08-15 23:11 (Reply)

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