Good 54º cloudy morning.
Yesterday by 2pm we only were at 75º but it was horribly
smokey from the Oregon and California fires...
Then a breeze came up and cleared out some of the smoke and it
warmed to 78º
We topped at 81º and had a pretty sunset:
This video was shared by Cyndi Moreno. It is totally amazing.
Parts I loved the best were the dog rescues, the lion and his human pal, jumping
fox, the ape release..... the scenery shot by drones was over the
top!
Historically this date..
1901 – Vice President of the
United States Theodore
Roosevelt utters the famous phrase,
"Speak softly and carry a big
stick" at the Minnesota State
Fair.
1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific
Theater: the Instrument of
Surrender ofJapan is signed by Japanese Foreign
Minister Mamoru
Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the
battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo
Bay.
... the Japanese surrendered on my
Mother's birthday, August 15th... and signed the treaty on my birthday! Cool.
AND then my Brian was stationed aboard the Mighty Mo when he was a Marine.
Anti-terrorist watch, guarding the atomic weapons during the Gulf War ... Marine
Detachment.
Marine Detachment Office on board USS Mo
Marine Detachment Office on board USS Mo
1998 – Swissair Flight
111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova
Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
And births include.....
1919 – Marge
Champion, American actress
... during my ballet years
in the '60's I took lessons from her father, Ernest Belcher. "trainer and coach
of many film performers, including Beth Beri, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri, Ramon
Navarro, Nanette Fabray and Shirley Temple".
1948 – Terry
Bradshaw, American football player
1948 – Christa
McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
1951 – Mark
Harmon, American actor
1964 – Keanu
Reeves, Canadian actor
And this was the day I was born, first baby in Los Angeles on VJ Day, BUT,
no more "birthdays"!! I am celebrating the 36th anniversary of my 35th birthday!
So there!
That 9er Kaepernick has been "branded a traitor" by NFL executives.
Yesterday I experimented with my Air Fryer by cutting up and cooking a yam
with a sprinkling of olive oil. I always cook yams with the skin on, so didn't
take it off. I should have. Next time! BUT, soooooo tasty and GOOD and crunchy!!!!
Later it was chair, wine, TV. I had recorded a new TV show Better Late Than
Never a "reality" show starring William Shatner, Henry Winkler, George Foreman,
Terry Bradshaw, and Jeff Dye. It was plain stupid!
I received a nice personal birthday note in the mail from our Congressman
Greg Walden....
He's such a GREAT guy and does so much for our Veterans!Thank you Greg!!!
All I know. Nuff said. Happy TGIF. Ciao.
xo Sue Mom
Bobo
September 2nd
VJ
Day
General
Douglas MacArthur:
General
MacArthur signed the treaty first, next the representatives of
Japan
and
then from around the world:
Celebrations
started August 14th...
August
14th - Japan surrenders
August
15th - Surrender announced to the world
September
2 - Ceremony and formal signing of surrender
VJ
Day marks the end of WWII, and the cessation of fighting against Japan. It
is called "Victory In Japan Day or "Victory Over Japan Day".
The
confusion over three dates:
There
is some confusion over what date is V-J Day. You can consider any (or all) of
three dates as V-J Day. President Harry S. Truman caused some of this
confusion........
On
August 14, 1945, the Japanese government cabled to the U.S. their surrender.
This is the date of most modern observances.
On
August 15, 1945, news of the surrender was announced to the world. This sparked
spontaneous celebrations over the final ending of World War II.
On
September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the
USS Missouri. At the time, President Truman declared September 2 to be VJ
Day.
Regardless
of which day you view as VJ Day, World War II was finally
over.
