V-E Day

 

Yesterday was V-E day. It has been seventy seven years since the allied victory ending World War II in Europe. V-E and V-J day are now farther in the past than Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox was on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked. It took millions of Americans to win that war. Few of them are left, and soon all will be gone. My father and one of his brothers served in the Pacific. Another brother served stateside. Two of my mother’s brothers served in Europe. At least two uncles by marriage also served. They and all the rest need to be remembered. They saved civilization.