Clear cold morning. About a half inch of frost on everything, but that won't last long once the sun comes up. Woke up early today. Watched Arsenic and Old Lace. I never know what this erratic sleeping brings. So I spent the early morning catching up my bookwork, sending out receipts finally for things sold at the art show, getting the deposit ready, and going through a stack of paperwork and bills.
Melita called but not until about 10 to invite me to come in to the small painting group. I couldn't have gotten ready and got there and spent any time before having to come back and cook dinner, so sadly missed that. I would have enjoyed it. Sheral
My brother-in-law was on the Missouri in WWII and was there for the treaty signing. Our family considered it quite a moment in hisotry and that he was there when it happened. He's still alive and.... lives in gues where..... Missouri. I was about 5 years old then.
It was on this day in 1945 that Japan formally surrendered to the United States, marking the end of World War II. It was a gray, overcast day. The surrender took place on the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, and witnesses later said that from the ship they could see the sunken wrecks of Japanese ships all around the harbor, left over from American bombings.
Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day, also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, or V-P Day) is a name chosen for the day on which the Surrender of Japan occurred, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. The term has been applied to both the day on which the initial announcement of Japan's surrender was made in the afternoon of August 15, 1945 (August 14 North American date), as well as the date the formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo on September 2, 1945.
Here's a couple of interesting things to look at:
flying over mountains - http://electricoyster.com/esp3d/
