VE Day

Today is VE Day - Victory in Europe Day. It's a shame that nobody celebrates it. I guess it isn't politically correct anymore.

On May 7, 1945 - Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces led by General Dwight D. Eisenhower and on May 8th of 1945 - that surrender was celebrated as the first VE Day. The Allied Forces defeated one of the most heinous military foes in history and today we don't celebrate our victory out of fear of offending someone. I'm afraid that today many people would be caught up in asking why the Nazi hate us instead of helping to defeat them.

As Dennis Miller once noted - these days everyone is compared to Hitler and the Nazis except Hitler and the Nazis.

The Allied victory over Japan is known as V-J Day and is commemorated on August 15th. I think Rhode Island is the only state left that celebrates V-J Day. It seems to me that every year on the nightly news we see something about the Tet Offensive in Vietnam on that anniversary. It will be interested to see if one of the great accomplishments in history even gets mentioned in passing.

And we wonder why our kids don't know anything about our history.

Happy VE Day everyone!