{"id":35404,"date":"2013-05-07T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35404"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T18:38:04","slug":"68-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35404","title":{"rendered":"68 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/11\/German_instrument_of_surrender2.jpg\/790px-German_instrument_of_surrender2.jpg\" height=\"380\" width=\"500\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;At 0001 hrs BDST 7 May 1945 the mission of this Allied force was accomplished.\u00a0 signed Eisenhower.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case you don&#8217;t recognize it:\u00a0 the above bold text was the message sent by GA Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander, AEF, to GA George C. Marshall, CSA, on the surrender of Nazi Germany.  The image is the document of unconditional surrender on the part of the German High Command.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 5 years and 8 months, World War II had effectively ended in Europe.\u00a0 It would continue in the Pacific for another 3 1\/2 months.<\/p>\n<p>Happy VE Day, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At 0001 hrs BDST 7 May 1945 the mission of this Allied force was accomplished.\u00a0 signed &hellip; <a title=\"68 Years Ago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35404\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">68 Years Ago<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}