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Wulf190

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I don't want this post to be political, Let this be known. 65 years ago today Japan surrendered to the Allied armed forces bringing World War II to an official close. Decades of rebuilding stood before the world, and still the scars have not faded. Nor should they be, reminders of when humanity loses its humanity.

We all enjoy a game which allows us to recreate and in a way relive that era...

...My only thought is that I enjoy this game knowing that it is all make believe, imitation, and graphics. I pray that humanity learns from its mistakes...

Rest at peace all who lost so much
 
Wulf190 said:
I don't want this post to be political, Let this be known. 65 years ago today Japan surrendered to the Allied armed forces bringing World War II to an official close. Decades of rebuilding stood before the world, and still the scars have not faded. Nor should they be, reminders of when humanity loses its humanity.

We all enjoy a game which allows us to recreate and in a way relive that era...

...My only thought is that I enjoy this game knowing that it is all make believe, imitation, and graphics. I pray that humanity learns from its mistakes...

Rest at peace all who lost so much
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Good thoughts, Wolfi190. Brings to mind my dad. He is 93 and a member of The Great Generation. Served in the Navy during WWII- a minesweeper skipper. Had a long post war career in the NAVY and then another long career in the civilian world after he retired. His memories are fading. But he has always been first and last a Naval Officer. A great dad and husband. Always that military background shaped all other aspects of his life and how he relates to it. These days when I look at my dad and think about what it will be like when he is no longer with us I often think of that speech by MacArthur to the West Point Corp of Cadets a couple of years before he died:

The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille,of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty - Honor - Country.

Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be-of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps.

I bid you farewell.
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Indeed, August 15th, 1945 was a banner day for freedom-loving people everywhere. Humanity must remember, and learn from it's mistakes of the past for our own survival. CFS2 is way to remember what was done and what was sacrificed in those days.

Sadly, I just read the obituary of another patient, John Holecek, who was - get this - a B-29 pilot who flew out of China and Tinian. and I never even knew. RIP John, and all those who have made the supreme sacrifice on the altar of freedom.


Let them in Peter, for they are very tired;
Give them couches where the angels sleep and light those fires.
Let them wake whole again to brand new dawns -
fired by the sun not war time's bloody guns.
May their peace be deep,
Remember where the broken bodies lie -
God knows how young they were to have to die.
Well, God knows how young they were to have to die.
Give them things they like - Let them make some noise.
Give dance hall bands not golden harps, to these our boys,
Let them love Peter, -- for they've had no time --
They should have bird songs and trees, and hills to climb
The taste of Summer, and a ripened pear,
And girls sweet as meadow wind, with flowing hair --
Tell them how they are missed. But say not to fear;
It's going to be alright with us down here.
- Anon
Performed by Edwin McCain
 
Wulf190 said:
We all enjoy a game which allows us to recreate and in a way relive that era...

...My only thought is that I enjoy this game knowing that it is all make believe, imitation, and graphics. I pray that humanity learns from its mistakes...

Rest at peace all who lost so much
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AMEN TO ALL YOUR WORDS WOLF190!!!
 
Looks like they declared "dungaree liberty" in Honolulu on V-J Day! :) I noticed a lot of sailors in working uniform on the vehicles and marching down the street. That film is in very good condition for being over 60 years old.
 
Wow, GR, that film is outstanding. Amazing to see how young and vivacious every one is. We all only knew our parents when they were bit older and beyond. Weren't the girls at the beach just beautiful. Probably all went on to be somebody's 50's and 60's moms. Makes me also think of all of the thousands of other young and just as vivacious members of that generation who never saw that day. Its a very bitter sweet film and Jimmy Durante singing "I'll be seeing you" is the perfect music choice. Wow.
 
That's all I could say - Wow - extra special to me because I was born and lived my first 5 years in Honolulu - Dad did internship/residency at Tripler, the Army Hospital, 22 Years after that film. Nostalgia city!
 
Wow GR......Fantastic! I'm Canadian, but that doesn't mean it didn't mean anything to us as well. Thank you so much for sharing, Bud!:salute:
 
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