August 14, 2010
— Dave in Texas 65 years ago today, Japan surrendered and it was finally over.
I just caught this remarkable video over at Iowahawk.
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945 from Richard Sullivan on Vimeo.
It was only five years later my dad was there in Honolulu, playing baseball for the SUBPAC, learning how to operate sonar on a diesel electric submarine. I need to call one of my sisters to show him this.
Thanks to those veterans who made this day happen.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at
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Tami, dad does email kinda ok, clicking and stuff on links, a little outside his computer comfort zone.
True story, (he's a communications engineer). First email I ever got from him was "TEST".
I knew enough to reply "ACK"
Posted by: Dave in Texas at August 14, 2010 10:26 AM (Wh0W+)
Had to choke back a couple of tears watching that.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at August 14, 2010 10:28 AM (fLHQe)
Posted by: Rum still wants to be at Epcot at August 14, 2010 10:28 AM (gofDd)
I mentioned yesterday on the ONT I was going to meet Bernie Goldberg last night.
I did and he is really a nice guy.
The morons wanted me to ask him why he doesn't punch out O'Reilly when the guy interrupts him so much.
He said he sure had thought about it, but O R was basically his boss. He said he's had his people complain to O R's people about it.
Did I mention that his wife is 10 years younger than he is and is smoking hot?
I knew the morons would want to know the important stuff.
Posted by: Kemp at August 14, 2010 10:29 AM (2+9Yx)
Oh, ok....you need to call one of your sister's and have her show it to him.
Posted by: Tami at August 14, 2010 10:31 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: I have invited a random person to a Beer Summit at August 14, 2010 10:32 AM (Epj2t)
Did I mention that his wife is 10 years younger than he is and is smoking hot?
I knew the morons would want to know the important stuff.
A. Your damn right.
B. Pics please!
Posted by: Roadking at August 14, 2010 10:32 AM (1y90o)
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 14, 2010 10:36 AM (554T5)
Posted by: Tami at August 14, 2010 10:37 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: LeBron Steinman at August 14, 2010 10:38 AM (Ofe3O)
Posted by: logprof at August 14, 2010 10:38 AM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 14, 2010 10:40 AM (Rmnz9)
I have joked that I was born too late, but even so I may not been tough enough for the times then.
Still, I weep for our country if we don't right ourselves soon.
Posted by: logprof at August 14, 2010 10:42 AM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: bigred at August 14, 2010 10:44 AM (cX9pO)
Barry: Where's the footage of Hirohito on the deck of the ...uhhhhhh....ummm...big boat signing the surrender document? Oh and we're sorry for winning the war
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 14, 2010 02:40 PM (Rmnz9)
I forget -- was it Clinton or Gore who called it the aircraft carrier Missouri?All I know is we bombed Hiroshima from a B-52. Historian Garrison Keillor told me so.
Posted by: Ed Anger at August 14, 2010 10:44 AM (7+pP9)
They'd been told they would have a few weeks to spend at home before being shipped out to the west coat and then to Japan to take part in the invasion.
This news meant they would not die in this war; it was one of the best days in all their lives. A few of them, including my father, are still alive 65 years later
My second cousin ( my father's cousin and best friend ), Robert Miller of Philly, died on Christmas Day 1942 while in the 9th AAF in Libya, taking part in a series of massive air attacks on Afrika Corps positions.
You all owe Bob Miller more than you can re-pay--he died for YOU.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at August 14, 2010 10:44 AM (uP7xk)
Posted by: King Barry XV at August 14, 2010 10:45 AM (BP6Z1)
He didn't talk about the war, or Pearl, very much. Once he said that he couldn't go to any funeral without thinking about it.
And he had a lifelong aversion to pineapple after years of the sweet smell of burning fields after the harvest.
Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2010 10:50 AM (cd6Ip)
The answer? If the transport ship was through the Panama Canal, they were going to Japan. The rest went home.
True shit.
Posted by: Kemp at August 14, 2010 10:53 AM (2+9Yx)
I fear that it will take a period of significant hardship, requiring great sacrifice to turn things around. This newsreel was the culmination of just that, sixty-five years ago. We are rotting from within. Character, civility and a sense of purpose will need to be rediscovered soon, by hook or by crook.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 14, 2010 10:55 AM (554T5)
Posted by: chuckR at August 14, 2010 10:55 AM (khYRZ)
Posted by: harleycowboy at August 14, 2010 10:56 AM (GRV1f)
The USS Missouri is now docked next to the Pearl Harbor memorial!
The Jap tourist usually don't make that visit.
Posted by: Kemp at August 14, 2010 10:57 AM (2+9Yx)
Posted by: chuckR at August 14, 2010 10:57 AM (khYRZ)
Scroll down to see her next to the Pearl memorial.
http://tinyurl.com/2bgpzku
Posted by: Kemp at August 14, 2010 10:59 AM (2+9Yx)
http://tinyurl.com/235wwnp
(And why the hell won't this stupid comment system let me put 2 tinyurl's in the same comment?)
Posted by: Tami at August 14, 2010 10:59 AM (VuLos)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 14, 2010 11:01 AM (Zj8fM)
Remember...that's a feature here.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at August 14, 2010 11:02 AM (554T5)
Posted by: unknown jane at August 14, 2010 11:04 AM (5/yRG)
You're right, Soap. This video was shot after years of hard work and sacrifice. Even then it wasn't over, there was still a world to be rebuilt.
That's what we are looking at now. Nov. won't be the war, just an early battle. That was the mistake made in '94. Too many people thought it was Tokyo Bay, but it was only Midway. Let's not screw it up this time, and not just the GOP, but all of us. We can not win Nov. and go back to sleep. If we do, we may never wake again.
Posted by: bigred at August 14, 2010 11:05 AM (cX9pO)
From Politico:
Speaking to reporters today, President Obama drew a sharp line under his comments last night, insisting that his defense of the right to build a mosque does not mean he supports the project.
"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding," he said.
Obama's new stance is logically consistent with his words last night, if a bit less "clarion," as Mike Bloomberg called the first remarks. And there are certainly two possible stances here: Bloomberg's, that the Cordoba project itself represents the best of America; and Obama's, that the freedom of religion is an important American value.
Obama's new remarks, literally speaking, re-open the question of which side he's on. Most of the mosque's foes recognize the legal right to build, and have asked the builders to reconsider.Posted by: Tami at August 14, 2010 11:06 AM (VuLos)
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Posted by: George S. Patton at August 14, 2010 11:07 AM (LtIsn)
My Uncle was a newly minted Marine, practicing for a long slog up the islands when he got the news. He got to dance with Kathrine Hepburn instead.
My dad was nearly dead from TB. If he'd lost his brother, I'm sure that would've been the end of him too.
Posted by: Bob at August 14, 2010 11:17 AM (4SK8b)
Oh, and my dad was in Okinawa at the time, getting patched up from some grenade shrapnel (I used to call his dental bridge his "bridle" when I was a tot and insisted on prying his mouth open to see it -- which he patiently put up with); survived four missions plus a couple of mop ups, got wonded more than once and had a lot of close calls -- felt thankful but ambivalent about the bomb (thankful the war was over but worried that nukes could fall into the wrong hands, even in this country). K-9 scout and fill in sniper, USMC. Didn't get home until November, became a DI for a while; met my mom while studying at college (which he dropped out of because he hated some of his profs); worked his ass off as a unionized engineer (hated the union, but didn't quit the job because of family commitments); died of complications from a hard life. Always kept saying that eventually what we're experiencing in America would happen: "either in your lifetime kid, but definitely in my grandkids or great-grandkids time -- although I pray that I'm wrong".
I think I'll go buy some beer tonight and drink 'em for Dad.
Posted by: unknown jane at August 14, 2010 11:17 AM (5/yRG)
Posted by: Warm Mountain at August 14, 2010 11:50 AM (2oxHP)
One of my godfathers was a naval combat photog in the Pacific.
This is great footage, and I wish both were here to see it.
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 14, 2010 12:09 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: CoolCzech at August 14, 2010 12:09 PM (tJjm/)
Our military -- and the people at home -- sacrificed so much and worked so hard to achieve victory. How sad it is that the current regime is so intent on destroying all the "Bravest Generation" saved for us....
Posted by: MrScribbler at August 14, 2010 12:18 PM (Ulu3i)
Posted by: Shep at August 14, 2010 12:19 PM (GkYyh)
My Dad was in the Army in WWII, and in the Philipines training for the invasion.
He spent four months in occuppied Japan, from September to December 1945.
Even though he was in the Army, he spent about half his time at sea, because it was a Navy war. A gut-bustin' mother lovin' Navy War.
To the heroes who served at sea in that war, and especially those that never came home:
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch says... at August 14, 2010 12:19 PM (sJTmU)
My Dad was loading a train in Vernon BC Canada when Hiroshima happened. He was in the commando's and they were going to go to Kentucky for jungle warfare training and then on to Japan ...
I'm sure he celebrated then too.
Posted by: BillyBob at August 14, 2010 12:50 PM (oynLz)
My dad was in the US Navy training to be a beach commander (I think that's the term), the guys that direct traffic on the beach during landings. Their lfe expectancy was about 15 minutes and then another guy would take his place. He was training for the landings to take place on Japan. He told me that if it were not for the A-bomb I would not have been born.
Posted by: Shep at August 14, 2010 04:19 PM (GkYyh)
My dad was an Army beachmaster on Okinawa. He went in before the first wave and directed artillery. Then he directed beach traffic. About 35 years later he met the guy who almost killed him with a short round and they laughed about itHe was on a ship waiting for the invasion when the bombs went off. Like you, I'm only here because of them.
-------
And he had a lifelong aversion to pineapple after years of the sweet smell of burning fields after the harvest.
Posted by: Robert at August 14, 2010 02:50 PM (cd6Ip)
My dad also landed on a Dole pineapple plantation (purple beach Mindanao IIRC) and got dysentery from all of the pineapples and bananas. It took decades before he'd eat them again.
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Posted by: tmitsss at August 14, 2010 01:48 PM (V4Pya)
--I think the sockpuppeting in this thread approximates what Ear Leader would say.
Posted by: logprof at August 14, 2010 02:14 PM (BP6Z1)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at August 14, 2010 03:04 PM (PQY7w)
Thanks to some great vets are due today - great video.
Sigh.
I wish that on August 31st, 2010 - the publicly announced 'conclusion' of Operation Iraqi Freedom - we could celebrate Victory in Iraq Day.
No matter what you think about how/why we went in there, we're leaving Iraq and the entire region a better place. The men and women - American, Iraqi, Coalition - who's blood, sweat, and tears were so dearly spent over the last 7 and 1/2 years are due our gratitude.
The world is owed such a holiday to remember those who sacrificed so much and freed 25 million humans from the grip of an evil despot.
Sigh.
Posted by: Steve-o-rino at August 14, 2010 03:11 PM (GU4wx)
Posted by: smoke fire at August 14, 2010 03:19 PM (4ueEy)
Here is the story and pictures from the parade. Enjoy
Posted by: smoke fire at August 14, 2010 03:23 PM (4ueEy)
Posted by: markytom at August 14, 2010 04:10 PM (v5URm)
Great videos... too bad my father (US Navy Seabee at Okinawa) and my uncle (US Marine at Iwo Jima) are not here today to see this...
Too bad the American young people today only see Polically Corrected reconstructed 'history.'
God Save the Republic!
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Posted by: tmitss at August 15, 2010 11:16 AM (V4Pya)
Fantastic! That was exactly 5 days after my seventh birthday. I was down the street playing with Linda Lou V____, the Methodist preacher's daughter when the fire siren started going off. We saw folks coming out of the grocery, hardware, and dry goods store into the street, and couldn't figure out what was going on.
Finally, someone started down the street away from town toward us and we asked what was going on - why is the fire siren on? They said, "The Japs have surrendered!" We started squealing and dancing around. We couldn't think what to do next, because we knew we couldn't leave the yard. So, she got on her small two-wheeler, and I took her old big tricycle, and we rode in circles on the street in front of her house for a long time. We would get off the bikes periodically to hug each other and dance around some more. Everyone stayed in the street, yelling for the longest time. I think I remember her mother coming out to see what in the world we were doing in the street, and then she clapped her hands and celebrated with us. Quite a day! I had lived in fear of Hitler and Hirohito (sp?) all of my remembered life. I couldn't even imagine a life without war.
(Side story) The song playing in the background was one I first heard in a movie - can't remember which one. About a year later, I think, when someone shot Colonel Tuck, I thought my heart would explode. I remember walking all over my yard, even out behind Mother's garden by Mr. Dunavant's field, singing that song to Col. Tuck. "I'll Remember You" I could hardly stand to hear that song for years after that.
Mom
(Colonel Tuck was her farm collie.)
Posted by: gop_patriot at August 21, 2010 07:35 AM (R1SwV)
Let the "war never solved anything" crowd put that in their pipe and smoke it.
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