User blog:Harmonmj13/V-J Day, 70 Years Later

It is September 2nd here in North America, and it is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to the Allied powers, officially ending World War II. Leaders on both sides meet on the decks of the USS Missouri to sign the documents that would draw one of the most devastating wars in the 20th Century. Let us remember the Allied forces who died during the long six years and those who lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps and Japanese prison camps, and the civilians caught in the crossfires and those who died in the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After 70 years, we may not have been there that day in Tokyo Bay or in our major cities celebrating the surrender, but we can celebrate what happened back in 1945.