80 years since End of WW2 compilation of my travels.

80 years. So there’s me visiting the Pearl Harbor site as a kid in Hawaii. My grandfather was in the Air Force World War II monument in Washington DC. A zero Japanese plane. Berlin war damage. Hitler’s bunker. Soviet monument Berlin. Some where World War II started in Europe near Gdong’s Poland. Some Jewish monuments. Schindler’s list site near Crocow. A concentration camp that I walked into near Crocow. British monuments in London to the soldiers in the war. Pictures from the time Winston Churchill. The controversial Tokyo Shrine to the war heroes. Singapore massacre. Checkpoint Charlie. Berlin. Holocaust memorial Berlin. The Soviet monument. Once again, Berlin. Soviet tank. War damage of Poland. Poland roundups. SS helmet. The newspaper about when Jews started being rounded up. some soldiers and SS people in Poland. This Albania memorial that was a graveyard to German soldiers. Those are Sicily bunkles. An actual World War II veteran from Italy that I met. He was 100 years old. Sicily getting liberated. Some German stuff that I’ve seen in Italy. Underground bunker in Naples where they hid out. USmade bomb. Mussolini building. Me holding a German Ruger. Albanian soldiers. The German SS helmet. Borneo memorial war damaged me with a gun. India monument to the war. Uh Armania, Soviet monument to World War II and all the people that died from Armenia. Different Soviet fighters. Japanese bunkers I found in East Taiwan. FDR in meeting with leader of England and China. UN monument in Korea and Nagasaki. The final act of an August 9th of the atomic bombing 1945. I went there recently. That’s the hypo center. They have a museum, the names of all the people, some monuments. In 80 years of relative peace, there’s some interwar German money inflation. A Japanese skull from Borneo head hunters and Vietnam. I’m declared independence coinciding with the Japanese surrender. Oh, [Music] nice margin. [Applause] [Music] All right. Whoa, look at that one coming in hot right over. Oh, and surrendered to America September 2nd and the war was Over.

Sept 3 1945-2025 80 years anniversary for the end of WW2 today. 1931-1945 (1939-1945) A global event that shaped everyone’s life alive and the world today. I experienced WW2 memories all over the world in my travels in Asia and Europe. Ive been to all the Capitals of the forner Axis, Tokyo, Berlin and Rome. Visited Pearl Harbor as a kid. Visited former Soviet Union and Concentration Camp sites on the Eastern Front. Italian bunkers in Sicily, Japanese bunkers in Taiwan. Held German coins, guns, helmets in Albania. Saw Japanese atrocity sites in SE Asia. Visited the controversial shrine to Japanese war dead and went to the site of the final act of the war Nagasaki. Hitler’s bunker!? I hope to visit sites in China like Nanjing, Russia like Leningrad (St. Petersburg), South Pacific, Normandy, and more one day from the war.

Technically you can say 1931 Japan invasion of Manchuria or 1937 further aggression in China is really the start of the war. 1939 German invasion of Poland, a site I also saw, started the global war. And Pearl Harbor 1941 started America’s involvement. Also Vietnam Independence Day I experienced this year in Hanoi But there’s more global context than that, it’s actually a celebration of the end of WW2, the Japanese formally surrendered Sept 2 and the final general in the Philippines surrendered Sept 3. Ending the worst war of all time. Ho Chi Minh took advantage, rightfully, after the Aug 9 bombing of Nagasaki by America, to launch his revolution to take over the country which succeed Aug 19. Probably not a coincidence he declared the independence on Sept 2 the day Japan formally surrendered. But it would take 30 more years til 1975 after fighting the French and Americans to reunify the country to fully claim independence of the entire country with the Hanoi govt.

The war ended in Europe after the Russian sack of Berlin and surrender April 30 1945 (another site I saw) But the war raged on in Asia, with America and others fighting on, like the brutal battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa that together killed around 20,000 US soldiers. Aug 6 and 9 the atomic bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then the official surrender Sept 2 surrender aboard a US Navy ship with the last general in The Philippines surrendering Sept 3 officially marking the end of the worst war in human history that claimed up to 85 million lives. Never again. Nothing like that should happen ever again.

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