Victory over Japan Day
August 14th is remembered annually as
Victory Over Japan Day. V-J Day in 1945 was indeed a day to
celebrate. Although communism would soon again bring war clouds over East
Asia,V-J Day brought a sigh of relief to millions. Few could have predicted
that in just a decade Japan would re-emerge as an economic powerhouse, only to
be eventually eclipsed by a post-communist China. On August 14th, President
Harry Truman announced: "This is the day we have been waiting for since
Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it
would."
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