{"id":37081,"date":"2013-08-14T06:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T10:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37081"},"modified":"2013-08-14T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T10:50:19","slug":"vj-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37081","title":{"rendered":"VJ Day celebration, Aug. 14, 1945"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.archives.gov\/mediamatters\/2013\/08\/13\/celebration-of-v-j-day-08141945\/\">National Archives<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Truman announces Japan\u2019s surrender,<br \/>\nat the White House, Washington, DC, August 14, 1945. <\/p>\n<p>At 7 pm on August 14, 1945, President Harry Truman stood before reporters gathered at the White House and announced the unconditional surrender of Japan. The Pacific War was over.<\/p>\n<p>Although the formal signing of the terms of surrender ending World War II would not occur until September 2nd,  the announcement of Victory Over Japan Day, or V-J Day, sent millions of Americans\u2014 citizens and members of the armed forces, out into the streets of cities and towns across the country and around the world .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video is silent, but you can almost hear the sounds in the downtown DC scenes; <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rieVqZh1Nm4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the National Archives; President Truman announces Japan\u2019s surrender, at the White House, Washington, &hellip; <a title=\"VJ Day celebration, Aug. 14, 1945\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37081\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VJ Day celebration, Aug. 14, 1945<\/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-37081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37081","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=37081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}