Good morning, money is jane droppa and the proud mother of a world war ii veteran, victory over japan day. Or vj day the allied victories in the pacific in the end of world war ii, the deadliest conflict in Human History. 75 years have passed since millions of people around the globe celebrated the end of world war ii. Thank you for joining us to celebrate our world war ii veterans who served overseas. All of those who served on the home front and our allies who together helped defeat tyranny, preserve freedom and literally save the world. The front of the National World war two memoriam your friends online commemorations is a Small Nonprofit Organization Whose Mission is to honor and preserve the National Memory of world war ii, and to create the next greatest generation of tomorrow. The ceremonies taking place throughout the day today are part of the friends for a year world war ii 75th anniversary commemoration, which began on pearl harbor day 2016. Friends is the only organization
Party, supported a constitutional amendment quite different from the one that was eventually ratified in 1865. Watch thursday beginning at 8 pm eastern, American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan3. In the years before 1941, japan built a great war machine and prepared for a mad gamble with the rest of the world. Finally, it played its hand. And lost. This was hiroshima immediately after the atomic bomb. A lifeless, hopeless city. But, time passes. And in the desolation of defeat, people stir and strive for the normal living they once knew. Hiroshima is a symbol of a new beginning of a defeated country is making. Slowly, very slowly, something is coming out of the wreckage. Not merely new buildings, but in the minds of a defeated people, a growing new ideas. The idea of democracy. There is hope in the air. Perhaps the past from defeat will lead to a better way of living than they have ever known before. In the old days, the victor took the spoils, sacked the conquered coun
This was germany, a beautiful country. A historic country. A prosperous country a modern country. The german people, a clean and tidy people. An educated people. A musical people. An industrys people. These people look all right. The mailman. The farmer, the cup, they are pretty much looking for his back home. Holding down jobs, raising families, enjoying life. They certainly look like the kind of people we can understand. Or can we . A quiet decent people who prepared 20 years to bring war into the world. A religious people who burned churches, persecute the faithful. A kindly people who accept blood purchase, concentration camps. A gentle people who tortured, starved, exterminate. These were men, they died in german concentration camps. These two were men. They didnt quite die. These bones were men, women and terminate children sent to be exterminated in a german camp. This is a scientifically designed gas chamber. This is a furnace. These, the childrens toys, carefully collected for
When these little ones have a good deal to. Here are a couple of boys who are really fixed for the winter. And this queen and her family have no housing problem. These fellows may be wondering about the next banana but not about the price of a nights lodging. They have a ceiling over their heads. What about these fellas . They are sleeping without benefit of a ceiling, rent or otherwise. 2 million men are married since entering the service. Many were married when they started packing packs or swinging seatbacks. A lot of men are gone through this routine. Sat through the last army lecture, signed the last navy pay voucher, and come home to love and affection. And problems, lots of problems. What do you want, sargeant . A job . You, private, do you want to know about schools or do you have a different kind of problem . Having trouble finding an apartment or a house like this one . All brick, six rooms, oil burning, near all churches and shopping. Convenient transportation. How much rent
A short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. It destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. With this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. On august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city of hiroshima, japan. Followed by a second detonation august 9th over the city of nagasaki. Six days later, japan surrendered, bringing in and to the second world war. I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government by the secretary of on august 11th. I did this reply a full acceptance of the declaration. It specifies the Unconditional Surrender. Through the work of cspan city store, we will share stories of the people that contributed to this world altering event. We begin