JAPAN SURRENDERS TO ALLIES, SIGNS RIGID TERMS ON WARSHIP; TRUMAN SETS TODAY AS V-J DAY (9/2/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 9/2/45 | Frank L. Kluckhohn, William S. White, Robert Trumbull, Herbert L. Matthews, Charles Hurd, more

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[Hebrews 11:6]

I see what you did there.

[fso301]

I understand what Jack Churchill must have felt like when he lamented, "If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years"

Now what will I do with my life?

[henkster]

If my father’s generation failed at anything, it was they did not make my generation better. But maybe that can’t be helped. They wanted us to live better than they did, and so they spoiled us. Just as we spoiled our children.

And now just about everything my father’s generation worked and fought for has been blown on a two-generation bling party.

[The KG9 Kid]

Thanks Homer. I’ve been here since Pearl Harbor. Just an amazing campaign thread on FR that deserves its own archive. Well done. What else can I say? (*Applause*)

[Springman]

Homer, thank you for posting all these papers for all these years. Now I guess you can sleep in again and not wake Marge up!!

Guess we should thank Lisa for her photobucket.

[Vermont Lt]

Thank you for all of your hard work and dedication.

One of the joys over the past few years has been spending an hour or so each day reading these papers. So much so, that often I forget to read the local papers from today.

Throughout this process I’ve been surprised at the little things that I learned, and the manner in which the big things were presented.

As an aside, I am impressed by the literacy of the writing and the average guy on the street during these times.

I thank you for this archive and I an pretty sure during the next cycle around, someone will link to every day.

[chajin]

If my father’s generation failed at anything, it was they did not make my generation better. But maybe that can’t be helped. They wanted us to live better than they did, and so they spoiled us.

Oh my, I could write an essay and a half on this; we desperately need to keep this conversation going.

Just one thing. There was a 1948 movie, An Apartment for Peggy, about a postwar couple who might as well be my parents, the way they relate to each other. The GI is trying to go to college, and his bride wheedles them into a walkup attic owned by the college's philosophy professor, who is just the way I would be if it were 1948 instead of today.

Go to the scene where the professor sees their refurbished attic for the first time. You need to watch the whole scene to get the feel for it--to me, it has the eerie feeling of myself getting to talk with my parents six years before I was born, but that is a personal thing. Around 6:30, the GI talks about why he wants to become a teacher, and then his wife rambles on about...well, you need to watch it. But if you're like I was the first time I saw this movie about 20 years ago, you'll be screaming at the couple, "YOU STUPID IDIOTS, YOU'RE GOING TO RAISE A GENERATION OF HIPPIES!"

And then it will hit you. The reason the generation was strong enough to fight the war was because it had become strong enough living through the Depression, and the only way their children could have been as strong as their parents would have been if they had lived through Depression and war, and that was the last thing the generation that had lived through depression and war would have been willing to give their children--there is no way anyone could have convinced the Greatest Generation to raise their children any other way than they did.

Every once in a while, I thank William Holden and Jeanne Crain for introducing me to my parents, and I thank Edmund Gwynn for letting me see myself as an old man when I was still too young to know what it was like to be an old man. But that's a subject for another day.

[Hebrews 11:6]

If my father’s generation failed at anything, it was they did not make my generation better. But maybe that can’t be helped.

It can't, beginning with Cain and continuing inexorably since.

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Old Testament is replete with innumerable stories of the Chosen People receiving God's blessings, vowing "religiously" never to forget and stray, and then resolutely turning their backs on Him--all as types for us to see our own personal weakness and ultimate need for Him.

"But God found fault with the people and said:
"The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers
when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them, declares the Lord. ""
Hebrews 8:8-9

[henkster]

Cliff Notes version of the historiograhy of the Old Testament:

God’s people are in suffering, and call out to Him for deliverance

God grants them deliverance, and restores them to prosperity

The people turn away from God, become destitute and suffer

Repeat

Some things don’t seem to change.

[colorado tanker]

there is no way anyone could have convinced the Greatest Generation to raise their children any other way than they did

Henkster's Law.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Some things don’t seem to change.

Maybe, maybe not: CHICAGO CUBS 75 - 57 = .568
Arrieta, Lester, Rizzo, Bryant, Russell, Schwarber, etc.:

Ricketts family
Epstein, Theo
Maddon, Joe

[Ecliptic]

Thanks Victor!

3rd of the 9th Infantry. Tan An, Vietnam 1970.

[EternalVigilance]

World War II America (Battle Hymn of the Republic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR7HPQM0Jgg&list=RDkR7HPQM0Jgg

[Poser]

Wow. It’s over..I will miss the daily posts. Thank you for your excellent work.