{"id":35503,"date":"2013-05-08T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35503"},"modified":"2013-05-08T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T15:52:21","slug":"ve-day-68-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35503","title":{"rendered":"VE Day; 68 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/VE-Day-1945-London.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/VE-Day-1945-London.jpg\" alt=\"VE Day 1945 London\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35504\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ROS writes to remind us that today is VE Day. That on May 8, 1945, the Allies declared themselves victorious in Europe. The day that European fascism died. The surrender was signed in Reins France on May 7th and in Berlin on May 8th, by the German government then headed by president Karl Donitz. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gastongazette.com\/opinion\/our-opinion\/editorial-ve-day-stands-to-so-future-generations-do-not-forget-1.139020\">Gaston Gazette<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Liberation finally had come to the death camps and their unimaginable horrors. Evil had been defined by the atrocities that took place within their barbed-wire fences.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom rang across Europe \u2014 and across America, people joined in the rejoicing.<\/p>\n<p>In a month of military anniversaries and recognition of those who gave their lives in America\u2019s wars, VE Day can easily become lost.<\/p>\n<p>The nation takes a holiday to observe Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>D-Day lives on in movies, the history books for far too many of succeeding generations.<\/p>\n<p>But the day that marks such a costly military \u2013 and important moral \u2014 victory passes by quietly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, it was also Harry Truman&#8217;s 61st birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS writes to remind us that today is VE Day. That on May 8, 1945, the &hellip; <a title=\"VE Day; 68 years later\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35503\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VE Day; 68 years later<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}