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Events 9.2 (after 1940)
1944 – The last execution of a Finn in Finland takes place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu. 1945 – World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 1945 – Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty. 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president with the powers of a Prime Minister. 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. 1958 – A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed. 1960 – The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day. 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War. 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia. 1985 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead. 1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void. 1992 – The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms–Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft). 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed. 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide. 2008 – Google launches its Google Chrome web browser. 2009 – The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 2010 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States. 2013 – The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span. 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five. 2019 – The dive boat MV Conception catches fire and sinks near Santa Cruz Island, killing 34. 2023 – India's first solar observation mission: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launches Aditya-L1 from Satish Dhawan space centre.
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This may be me being stupid but how is she in Tibetan parliament if she’s banned from china (not that she gaf but)
The parliament is held in exile, in India. Although she’s still driving the CCP mad lol.
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12th September 2019, London: The ‘Dialogue for Peace’ road-trip team of three led by Ven Thupten Wangchen, Member of Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, arrived from Paris onto England shores on the evening of 10th September. An advance team of the Tibetan Community … Continued
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Tibetan Government-In-Exile Thanks Trump Over Bill On Next Dalai Lama
Tibetan Government-In-Exile Thanks Trump Over Bill On Next Dalai Lama
“The presidents of US have consistently supported the Tibet cause, the statement said. (File) Dharamshala: The Tibetan Parliament-in-exile has expressed gratitude to United States President Donald Trump for signing a new Tibet policy. On Sunday, Mr Trump signed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 to modify and re-authorise various programmes and provisions related to Tibet. The bill…
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Tibetan Government-In-Exile Thanks Trump Over Bill On Next Dalai Lama
Tibetan Government-In-Exile Thanks Trump Over Bill On Next Dalai Lama
“The presidents of US have consistently supported the Tibet cause, the statement said. (File) Dharamshala: The Tibetan Parliament-in-exile has expressed gratitude to United States President Donald Trump for signing a new Tibet policy. On Sunday, Mr Trump signed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 to modify and re-authorise various programmes and provisions related to Tibet. The bill…
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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk, but he is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on July 6, 1935, to a farming family in the village of Taktser, in northeastern Tibet. At the age of 2, as a child named Lhamo Dhondup, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso.
The 14th Dalai Lama was not formally enthroned until Nov. 17, 1950, during the Battle of Chamdo with the People’s Republic of China. In 1951, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government were pressured into accepting the so-called Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, which incorporated Tibet into the People’s Republic of China. Fearing for his life in the wake of a revolt in Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India, from where he led a government in exile.
In 2001 the 14th Dalai Lama ceded his partial power over the government to an elected parliament of selected Tibetan exiles. His original goal was full independence for Tibet, but by the late 1980s he was seeking high-level autonomy instead. He continued to seek greater autonomy from China, but Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile, stated: “If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or self-determination as per the U.N. charter."
In 2014 and 2016, he stated that Tibet is willing to be part of China, but China should let Tibet preserve its culture and script.
Photo credits: Popperfoto/Getty Images, Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Vatican/Reuters, Reuters, Kevin Lamarque/Reuters, Kevin Frayer/AP, Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
See more photos from the life of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama our other slideshows on Yahoo News.
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Exile Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns maintain social distance as a precaution against the coronavirus as they stand in line to vote in Dharmsala, India, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021. Exile Tibetans Sunday voted in the first round to elect a new political leader and members of the Tibetan parliament in exile. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
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COMMEMORATIVE MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 75TH DIAMOND JUBILLEE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION AND THE VICTORIOUS AND DEFINITE CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America and Canada, to all our remaining living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women, reservists and families of the entire United States Armed Forces and Canadian Armed Forces, and to all the uniformed military and civil security services of the Allied combatants of this conflict, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, agriculture, business, tourism and the press, and to all our people of the free world:
Our greeting to the millions who today celebrate such an important day in our history.
For it was on this day in history when in 1792 when the September Massacres, the mass slaughter of the Catholic clergy and supporters of the monarchy during the early stages of the French Revolution, began as revolutionary crows stormed into the prisons killing supporters of the deposed royal family.
It was on this day in 1872 that the Battle of Sedan ended with a historic defeat for the French Army.
It was on this day in 1960 when the in-exile Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration held its very first elections.
And today, September 2, in the midst of the fact that the world is now currently in one of the greatest crises of our times in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in millions being infected and in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world, as well as the cancellations of many events and of sporting activities and the postponment of many others as a precautionary measure for the sake of protecting public health and well-being, we today celebrate with great joy the anniversary of all anniversaries: the 75th Diamond Jubilee year anniversary of the signing of the official documents of the unconditional surrender of the whole of Japan to the victorious Allied Powers and the conclusion of the Second World War, 6 years and a day after it began with the Nazi German advance to western Poland in 1939. It is a day of profound celebration of the historic day that finally ended years of long and bitter war against the Axis aggressor in many parts of the world, a war that would in the end cost the lives of millions of people, the dignity of millions of women and children, the loss of many precious works of art and culture and the destruction of countless architectural wonders, economies and industries. It is a day wherein we reflect the sacrifices of the millions of men and women who fought and worked in the side of the victorious Allies in the united cause of the defense of lives and individual freedoms against the totalitarian aggressor bent on destroying freedom and independence for the sake of fascism, opresssion and abuse of human rights and liberties. It is a day of remembrance of the memories of the millions of martyrs of the uniformed military, law enforcement and civil defense services of the Allied Powers who perished during this terrible period in human history. It is above all a joyful day of celebration of the victory against the forces of evil and the beginning of the long era of peace.
On this day exactly 75 years ago, aboard the historic battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) off the waters of Tokyo Bay, military representatives of both the Allies and the Empire of Japan signed the papers that formally ended a six year old war (eight long years of warfare in East Asia) and brought forth the victory over the Axis aggressors in the Asia-Pacific, with the acceptance of Japan and her armed forces of the terms of unconditional surrender of the country to the victors as agreed before earlier in the year in Postdam and as announced to the whole of the country the month before, with with ceremonies of surrender being conducted in other parts of East Asia in the coming days marking the close of another memorable but bloody chapter in world history. On that day the world witnessed the beginning of a long but painful road to peace that would in the following years be riddled with the blood of future regional wars, but lined with the sacrifices of millions whose sacrifices during those six long years brought forth the ideals of a better world for our future generations, a world full of peace and progress, where people live in harmony, friendship and cooperation. On that day the world celebrated the victory won against the Axis Powers whose plans for evil domination in the world and the suffering of millions were ended by the Allied Powers. On that day the world gave its thanks to the millions of men and women, collectively dubbed as the Greatest Generation, the millions of active and reserve servicemen and women of the armed forces, police, fire, border protection, civil defense, emergency response and intelligence organizations, as well as all paramilitary and law enforcement auxillary organizations of the Allied Powers whose tenacity, courage, hard work, dedication, resiliency and profound active support in the battlefields in land, air and sea in conventional and unconventional military and paramilitary operations, intelligence gathering and counter-intelligence operations, law enforcement, emergency response, disaster and war relief and rehabilitation operations, whether be in enemy territories or in friendly lands, together with the millions of working men and women of the home front industries who helped supply needed equipment, fuel, water and vehicles, as well as shipping and aerial supplies and even clothing, furniture and needed medical supplies and food, all to the servicemen and women in the frontlines, the medical professionals who helped in treating the wounded, the chaplains who prayed for the living and the dead and the people in culture and the arts, in the press, film and television, in businesses and enterprises, and in sports either as serving in the uniformed organizations or in active support for the war effort at home secured the cause of liberty and independence of millions all over the world against the Axis Powers and collectively as one people ended the threat posed by them to the free world and to the whole of humanity. For such a great victory, that had been paved by the blood of the millions of lives lost during this long and painful conflict, including Jews, members of other religious communities, people who sympathized with the resistance movement and anti-Nazi activists and politicians, as well as of Poles and others in Soviet concentration camps and Gulag camps and by exile to other parts of the USSR of various ethnic communities, as well as the massive Japanese persecution, injustices, murder and violent acts directed at the Chinese and dissident citizens and people of other faiths in the Asia-Pacific and Axis aerial bombardments and sea attacks on merchant shipping and supply convoys, had indeed been impossible if not for the great support shown by every one of our millions of people, who through their efforts contributed to the great and glorious victory that we remember today. Such indeed is the importance of this great victory that we remember on this very day of our history, exactly 75 years ago today.
We indeed cannot forget so great a sacrifice by millions of people from all walks of life who perished in so severe a global conflict as this, with millions of civilian fatalities, and millions more who died among those in the uniformed organizations and paramilitary groups of the Allies who fought against the aggressor.
We cannot forget too the martyrdom of millions who suffered gravely at the hands of the Axis governments and socio-political organizations.
We cannot forget as well the heroism of millions who fought in the battlefields of this long conflict, in places like Dunkirk, Leningrad, the Brest Fortress, Moscow, Tula, Borodino, Sevastopol, El Alamein, Tobruk, Stalingrad, Kursk, Normandy, Caretan, Paris, Minsk, Monte Cassino, Eindhoven, Rome, Smolensk, Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa, Lyon, Bastogne, Warsaw, Bryansk, Anapa, Smolensk, Lviv, Shanghai, Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Peninsula, Corregidor Island, Singapore, Besang Pass, Hong Kong, Wuhan, Midway Island, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, the Santa Cruz Islands, Belgrade, Sofia, the Caucasus, Karelia, Cologne, Xiamen, Budapest, Tunis and many more, in the land, air, and sea, from every terrain and in any weather condition, from the sands of the Sahara, up to the Normandy beaches, the British skies, the forests and plains of the Low Countries, the mighty mountains and valleys of the Alps and Balkans, the marshes at Pripyat, the Ukrainian steppes to the Arctic and the snowy lands of Scandinavia, towards the jungles of Myanmar and the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Indonesia, in the changing terrains and landscapes of China and Korea, and in the Pacific Islands and New Guinea, dinstinguishing themsleves for their country and for the whole of humanity in conventional and unconventional military and paramilitary operations, intelligence gathering and combat and service support, led by heroic commanding officers coming from all walks of life, graduates of military academies and officer candidate institutes, whose efforts received for them the honor and glory of their country and people, many of them at the cost of losing their lives in battle.
And we cannot forget as well the contributions of millions in the home front in the victory that is celebrated today in the Asia-Pacific, thru their efforts to support those in the battlefields and overseas bases with much needed equipment, supplies and essential equipment, in addition in supporting war bonds activties and listening to artists who time and again gave concerts and shows to those in the armed forces at home and overseas, while also watching movies and documentaries about the war during this time in our history.
This was indeed a day that everyone had waited all these 6 years. A day the millions who fought in the Allied military forces and guerilla organizations anticipated, many would die in combat but many more lived to see this day come, a day that would usher in the end of this long conflict and the victory won against the Axis Powers. Indeed the sacrifices of the millions who were mobilized to fight those who were threatening peace and the future of the world, as well as the blood poured by those who fell in this long period of our history, and the suffering felt by so many people in the territories where the war had impacted directly all led up to this great day. Of the millions who answered the call, millions less died in battle in the uniforms of the Allied armed forces and paramilitary organizations in Europe, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific and in naval operations everywehre, while millions still lived long for the great day of victory to arrive on the 2nd of September, 1945, exactly 75 years ago.
Today, in remembrance of the victory won against the Allies and the end of this great war, we remember these millions of active and reserve men and women of the military forces and paramilitary organizations of the Allies, today only by the thousands who are still alive ever to celebrate this momentous occasion of such an important anniversary of the victory won over the Axis Powers in the Asia-Pacific and the end of this long and bitter conflict that forever changed human history. We must never forget that this victory was made possible because of their adversity in battle, determination, iron-willed strength, courage, friendship, bravery and perserverance, and above all the readiness to sacrifice life and limb for the sake for the cause of the defeat of the ideologies that begun this conflict eight decades past in Eastern Europe.
Marking this great anniversary, with deep respect and profound gratitude we today honor these millions of heroes, who, through their personal and combined efforts, secured the final victory we honor today against the Axis Powers, ending once and for all their evil plans for the domination of the world and the repression of peoples. Today and always may we by our words and actions recall the memory of these men and women who served during those years of combat in every corner of the world who are even in this present time and in a modern way of life are still honored not just by battle honors and monuments but also in various works and in radio, television, film and digital media, and who today we, the descendants of this heroic and great generation of heroes, and the generations of tomorrow must keep in our minds and hearts, among them the men and women of the intelligence services who helped provide the Allied military leadership with information on enemy locations and movements, Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, formerly 4th Brigade Combat Team and now 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, United States Army, the brave men of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th and 7th Marine Regiments, the tankers of the 2nd Armored Division, the aviators and air crews of the 8th Air Force, and all our sportsmen and women who served under the colours of the Allied military forces during the long war and helped win the definite victory against tyranny and oppresion, be forever in our memories and our profound remembrance, not just by their families and descendants but by the very people they fought and died for in the fields of battle, the frontlines, the concentration camps and the home front, and by the people and youth of today and our future generations of men and women, most especially to all considering careers in the uniformed services, so that their legacies to the peoples of the world will be conserved for posterity and for the sake of those who will follow in their footsteps today and in the future. On this day of celebration for millions of people all over the globe we once again send our greetings to the hundreds of thousands of men and women in active service and in the reserves in the armed forces, police, public security, forestry, border security, civil defense and emergency services of the Allied combatant countries and their families,our working people, agricultural workers and those working in science and technology, education, tourism, culture and the arts and in the mass media and the press and all our sportsmen and women, as well as our military and civil uniformed service veterans and their families, and the families of all who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for the defense of our principles and of our liberty and independence. In addition to these individuals and public and private corporate and cooperative entites, in light of the ongoing global pandemic caused by COVID-19, we also today remember the modern day heroes of this disastrous time: our medical workers and professionals treating the sick and the dying even at the cost of their lives, as well as those working in essential and permitted industries and enterprises, which have also suffered from the economic fallout of this pandemic, whose determination, courage and firm hope in the future, with firm compliance with health and safety protocols, have ensured the survival and resilience of our people and economies in the face of such a health crisis never seen in over a century, and the people working for the research, development and manufacture of medications and vaccines against the virus and its effects on our health and well-being. As we today celebrate this historic anniversary of the victory won against the Axis Powers in the Asia-Pacific, let us not forget them as well, for these are the great men and women who are the descendants to the millions who fought for this great victory and are the ones tasked to carry the flames of this great victory into the future. May we forever never ever forget the Allied heroes and martyrs of the Second World War in Europe, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific who all through these years of warfare helped make possible the victory we celebrate today, 75 years on to the day of the conclusion of this war and of the victory against the Axis Powers in all the theaters of this global conflict, and in looking onwards to the anniversaries of such a great victory even without the presence physically of the heroic generation that won this war against the evil aggressors, may we forever inherit their legacy of service to their country and people, towards the defense of the freedom and independence of the free world against domestic and foreign enemies and ideologies against the spirit and legacy of those who fought for the sake of the human race and the peace and progress of the world.
To all of you, our dear living veterans of this war who still are with us, rest assured that as you all live our remaining days on this earth, we will forever honor and remember the great victory you all won against the forces of international fascism, imperialism, dictatorship, racism, xenophobia and totalitarianism symbolized by the Axis Powers, carry onwards the memories of your service with the armed forces of the victorious Allied Powers and instill in our future generations the value of patriotism, courage, audacity, bravery, cooperation, respect, harmony and dignity, and above all, the value of helping in the defense of the country and people for the continued survival of our freedom and independence, towards the goal of a better tomorrow strong and free for our children and grandchildren. By your legacy we therefore promise to forever honor your combined sacrifices and contribution to the victorious conclusion of this long war, to work hard to defend the principles of independence and sovereignty and give all our time and talent in labor in times of war and peace and in times of disaster and need for the sake of building a stronger, prosperous and independent world by building up our economy, fighting the ills of our current society, improving education, help preserve the environment, promote culture and the arts as well as local traditions and the way of life of aboriginal and Native American communities, promote and protect the freedom of religion and the sanctity of human lives, promote a healthy lifestyle and a sporting way of life, and forever honor the places and people who are part of our history while maintaining readiness to instill in our future generations a spirit of preparedness to serve their country and people to the best of their ability and fight the evils that are still present in our world of today!
Today, as the world celebrates this historic 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we, the millions of people of the free world, today we pledge, more than ever before, to honor the sacrifices of the heroes of the past and work towards achieving the goals of peace and progress and a better world fought by these valiant men and women who risked their lives for the defense of our liberties and civil and human rights against the Axis Powers and ensured the victorious advance towards a world that is just and diverse, where Nature’s wonders have been restored to former glories and wherein humanity lives in the spirit of peace, friendship and cooperation built on the heroic acts by the heroes of our past.
On this very great day of our history and in the history of humanity, this very important day in which we celebrate as one people the 75th year anniversary of the official glorious and victorious conclusion of the 6-year long Second World War, and the official surrender of the military forces of the Empire of Japan, we greet all of you the people of the free world, and most especially to all of you our remaining veterans of this long and great conflict, who helped win this great victory and opened the gates for a better future for all of humanity, as heroes who risked even their lives for the defeat of the military and political might of the Axis Powers, to all you our veterans of succeeding conflicts and in UN peacekeeping operations worldwide and to all and of our men and women and veterans of the military and civil uniformed services and uniformed youth groups from all the Allied combatant countries as we today mark 75 years since the final defeat of the Axis Powers in the Asia-Pacific and the victory over the Empire of Japan!
For all of us, it wil forever be a day of remembrance and celebration of the great victory in which our forebears won against the might of the Axis Powers all over the world, and a day in which we will forever uphold the legacy of the millions who died for the values that are worth defending and fighting for, then as in today. We will never stop honoring the blessed memory of these men and women who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and independence of our world. We will never stop reminding our children and future generations of the cost of the freedoms we celebrate. And we shall always light up the legacy in which these millions of men and women lived and fought for, which is the great victory that we celebrate today.
Today, we celebrate with all of you, the people of the free world and forever treasure in our hearts and minds the memory and legacy left behind by these the millions of men and women who 75 years ago celebrated the conclusion of such a war that forever changed our world and a war that they won against the forces of the Axis Powers at the cost of millions of lives lost from the plains and mountains of Europe, the sands of northern Africa and the Middle East, towards the diverse lands of the Asia-Pacific. Today and always we continue to remember their sacrifice for the sake of us and for the generations to come who will forever honor and commemorate their contributions to freedoms we cherish to this day. Even as the growing tide of evil may be rising again, united with the men and women of our NATO armed forces and the armed forces of our allies abroad in the performance of their patriotic, internationalist and military duties for the sake of the freedom and independence of the peoples of the free world, armed with the best and modern equipment, arms, vehicles, ships and aircraft, and united with the public security services and the hard work of our people of all sectors of society, no obstacle cannot be overcome, no problem can be left unsolved and no stone left unturned in our efforts to forever maintain the legacy left behind by these heroes of the Second World War, who fought at the cost of their lives to win the victory that we celebrate not just on this day but also every day of our lives!
More than ever before in our history, we will never let the fire of the great victory won 75 years ago fade away in our hearts, and forever maintain the legacies of victory won by the great generations who fought before us!
Today, as we mark this great day in our history, may we never regret to recall the heroic deeds of our predecessors who fought in this war and of all our past naval aviators who flew throughout all these years for the sake of the freedom and independence not just of the United States of America and Canada, but the freedom and independence of all of the free world. May we as one united people never tire of honoring the memory of our heroic forebears and always work hard to be worthy of their sacrifices, most of all, for the sake of our present and for the future of our world and of all humanity. We will never forget their tireless sacrifices for the sake of the freedoms we enjoy today and always uphold what this victory truly means – a victory against the ever present forces of international fascism and totalitarianism around the world!
nd in conclusion, as we today mark this historic anniversary since the victory over Japan and the conclusion of the Second World War, as we today mark it with remembrance and joyful celebration, may we who keep this sacred holiday and recall the millions who died to make this victory possible with respect and reverence especially for those who went before us shall be worthy of what they fought and died for, for building a world of peace, harmony and progress, a clean environment, and a brighter future for all our children and grandchildren - truly the very future that is truly worth defending and the very future our forefathers fought with their very own lives. With our greatest gratitude may we, the successors to this great generation of victors, always and forever treasure in our hearts all those who have gone before us and have entrusted to us the spirit of defending our freedom and liberty in all those years from the beginning of the war up to the great victories in which we honor today, everyday and in the years and decades to come! And may we forever cherish the victory won today, the very reason of the freedoms we live, and forever kindle the fire of victory that will enflame our memories both now and in the brighter tomorrow that is to come!
As the men of Easy Company would always say: WE STAND ALONE TOGETHER!
ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEDICAL WORKERS AND PROFESSIONALS AND PERSONNEL OF UNIFORMED SERVICES WHO PERISHED IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC!
ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MLLIONS OF THE FALLEN AND THE HEROES AND VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC FROM 1939-1945, WHOSE LEGACY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY ALL OF US TODAY AND BY ALL THE GENERATIONS TO COME!
ETERNAL GLORY TO ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR THE FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE OF OUR WORLD AGAINST FASCISM, NAZISM AND IMPERIALISM IN THE FIELDS OF BATTLE, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND IN THE HOME FRONT!
LONG LIVE THE VICTORIOUS MEN AND WOMEN IN THE SERVICE OF THE ALLIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC!
LONG LIVE ALL THE ALLIED MILITARY, PARAMILITARY AND CIVIL VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
LONG LIVE THE INVINCIBLE AND FOREVER VICTORIOUS PEOPLE OF THE FREE WORLD AND ALL OUR SERVING ACTIVE AND RESERVE SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN AND VETERANS OF THE ARMED SERVICES OF ALL THE COMBATANT ALLIED COUNTRIES THAT HELPED WIN THIS GREAT WAR AGAINST FASCISM, NAZISM AND IMPERIALISM, AS WELL AS ALL OUR ACTIVE AND RESERVE SERVICE PERSONNEL, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES AND VETERANS OF THE POLICE, FIREFIGHTING, FORESTRY, BORDER CONTROL, CUSTOMS AND RESCUE SERVICES AS WELL AS OUR YOUTH OF TODAY AND THE CHILDREN OF OUR TOMORROW WHO WILL CARRY ON THE LEGACY OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE THEM, ESPECIALLY TO THE MILLIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO TOOK PART IN THIS GREAT WORLD WAR!
LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS 75TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATERS OF OPERATIONS AND THE GREAT VICTORY OVER THE FORCES OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN AND THE AXIS POWERS!
GLORY TO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND FRANCE, TOGETHER WITH THE ARMED SERVICES OF THE OTHER VICTORIOUS COMBATANT COUNTRIES OF THE ALLIED POWERS, GUARDIAN DEFENDERS OF OUR DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE, OUR FREEDOM AND OUR LIBERTY AND GUARANTEE OF A FUTURE WORTHY OF OUR GENERATIONS TO COME!
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO ALL OVER THE WORLD, A VERY HAPPY 75TH VICTORY OVER JAPAN DAY!
And may I repeat the immortal words of the Polish National Anthem:
Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live!
CURRAHEE! AIR ASSAULT! ARMY STRONG! SEMPER FI!
Ooooooooooooooooooraaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
1830h, September 2, 2020, the 244th year of the United States of America, the 245th year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 126th of the International Olympic Committee, the 124th of the Olympic Games, the 102nd since the conclusion of the First World War, the 81st of the beginning of the Second World War in Europe, the 79th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 75th since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 73rd of the modern United States Armed Forces and the 53rd of the modern Canadian Armed Forces.
Semper Fortis
JOHN EMMANUEL RAMOS-HENDERSON
Makati City, PH
(Requiem for a Soldier) (Honor by Hans Zimmer)
(Slavsya from Mikhail Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar)
(Victory Day by Lev Leshenko)
(Last Post) (Taps) (Rendering Honors)
#hbo war#hbo war fandom#victory over japan day#band of brothers#the pacific#masters of the air#vj day#vjday75#vj day 75#den pobedy#victory day
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Events 9.2 (after 1900)
1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. 1923 – Kantō Massacre: Amid rumors that Koreans had been conducting acts of sabotage in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, lynch mobs of Japanese begin massacring thousands of civilians over the course of several weeks, mainly ethnic minorities such as Koreans and Chinese. 1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400. 1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany. 1944 – The last execution of a Finn in Finland takes place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu. 1945 – World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 1945 – Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty. 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president with the powers of a Prime Minister. 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. 1958 – A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed. 1960 – The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day. 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War. 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia. 1985 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead. 1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void. 1992 – The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms–Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft). 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people on board are killed. 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide. 2008 – Google launches its Google Chrome web browser. 2009 – The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 2010 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States. 2013 – The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span. 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
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Knife Attacker Injures Four Staff at Oslo School: Police (Reuters) An attacker armed with a knife injured a teacher and three other staff at a school in Oslo on Tuesday, police said.
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German Minister Tells Brexit Britain: ‘Please Deliver’ (Reuters) The European Union is increasingly exhausted by Brexit negotiations and needs a “clear and precise” request from the UK on reasons behind any Brexit delay, Germany’s EU minister Michael Roth said on Tuesday.
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France bans some yellow vest protests in Paris after riots (AP)--France’s prime minister announced a ban Monday on yellow vest protests along the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris and in two other cities following riots on Saturday that left luxury stores ransacked and charred from arson fires.
Putin visits Crimea to mark 5th anniversary of annexation (AP)--President Vladimir Putin led thousands to chant “Russia!” on a visit Monday to Crimea marking the fifth anniversary of the Black Sea peninsula’s annexation from Ukraine, as NATO and the European Union once again strongly condemned the land grab by Russia.
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Days after Chinese FM Wang Yi visit, top Tibetan official Dolma Tsering Teykhang meets 30 Indian MPs, Taiwan envoy in Delhi
Days after Chinese FM Wang Yi visit, top Tibetan official Dolma Tsering Teykhang meets 30 Indian MPs, Taiwan envoy in Delhi
New Delhi: Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament in exile Mrs Dolma Tsering Teykhang met over 30 Indian Parliamentarians or MPs and Taiwan’s ambassador to India in a high-level engagement starting 4th April. The meeting comes days after Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi was on an India visit. Speaking to Zee Media’s Diplomatic Correspondent Sidhant Sibal, Mrs Dolma Tsering said the focus of…
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NEW DELHI: A letter written by the Chinese embassy to several Indian lawmakers for attending a reception hosted by the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile triggered sharp political reactions on Friday, with a prominent parliamentarian slamming the mission for commenting on a matter in which it does not have a locus standi. At least six MPs from various political parties attended the dinner reception in…
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COMMEMORATIVE MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 74TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT ALLIED VICTORY OVER JAPAN AND THE VICTORIOUS AND DEFINITE CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America and Canada and of the other combatant countries which formed the victorious Allies of the Second World War, to all our living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women and reservists of the entire United States Armed Forces and the Canadian Armed Forces, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed organizations, youth interest and hobby groups, youth sports and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, business and the press, and to all our people of the free world:
To all men and women of goodwill, our dearest greetings of joy and gladness.
For it was on this day in history when in 1792 when the September Massacres, the mass slaughter of the Catholic clergy and supporters of the monarchy during the early stages of the French Revolution, began as revolutionary crows stormed into the prisons killing supporters of the deposed royal family.
It was on this day in 1872 that the Battle of Sedan ended with a historic defeat for the French Army.
It was on this day in 1960 when the in-exile Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration held its very first elections.
Today, we celebrate Labor Day in the United States and Canada, celebrating the importance of labor and the contributions of working people to the progress and development of society and towards national prosperity.
And today, September 2, following the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of its beginning in Eastern Europe, we mark as one united people of the world the 74th year anniversary since the historic victorious conclusion of the Second World War in the Asia-Pacific, the formal end of a six-year long war that forever changed the history of the human race and its destiny. As we recall that day in which the long global conflict that began in Europe, just as hostilities were ongoing for over two years in China and Korea, had now concluded in the Asia-Pacific, we remember the millions who throughout the course of this war as part of the armed forces victorious Allies, paid with their lives, the ultimate sacrifice for the liberation of the peoples of the world from the oppression and suffering of the Axis Powers in all the theaters of this war.
Recalling therefore today the very moment representatives of the Allied military forces and the armed forces of the Empire of Japan, the Allied national governments and the Japanes government offically signed on the deck of the US navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) the official documents of the unconditional surrender of the government, armed forces and people of the Empire of Japan to the victorious Allies, a demand taken during the Postdam Declaration earlier that April and one that Japan accepted with deep sadness, with ceremonies of surrender being conducted in other parts of East Asia in the coming days, ending 8 years of warfare that griped the Asia-Pacific and 6 years of a global conflict that defined history and forever changed the face and destiny of the world and of all the human race, we today reminise the thousands of days in which our fighting men and women of the Allied armed forces fought tremenous battles on land, air and sea, the millions of Allied paramilitary guerilllas fought in unconventional operations within and behind enemy lines, the men and women of the intelligence agencies who worked round the clock at home and behind enemy lines to gather information to help our forces plan for crucial operations against enemy forces, the millions of working men and women of the home front industries who helped supply needed equipment, fuel, water and vehicles, as well as shipping and aerial supplies, to the servicemen in the frontlines, the medical professionals who helped in treating the wounded, the chaplains who prayed for the living and the dead and the people in culture and the arts, in the press, film and television, in businesses and enterprises, and in sports who tiressesly assisted in the war effort and gave their best to support the men and women of the Allies in every way possible through their talents. For such a great victory, that had been paved by the blood of the millions of lives lost during this long and painful conflict, including Jews, members of other religious communities, people who sympathized with the resistance movement and anti-Nazi activists and politicians, as well as of Poles and others in Soviet concentration camps and Gulag camps and by exile to other parts of the USSR of various ethnic communities, as well as the massive Japanese persecution, injustices, murder and violent acts directed at the Chinese and dissident citizens and people of other faiths in the Asia-Pacific and Axis aerial bombardments and sea attacks on merchant shipping and supply convoys, had indeed been impossible if not for the great support shown by every one of our millions of people, who through their efforts contributed to the great and glorious victory that we remember today. Such indeed is the importance of this great victory that we remember on this very day of our history.
This was indeed a day that everyone had waited all these 6 years. A day the millions who fought in the Allied military forces and guerilla organizations anticipated, many would die in combat but many more lived to see this day come, a day that would usher in the end of this long conflict and the victory won against the Axis Powers. Indeed the sacrifices of the millions who were mobilized to fight those who were threatening peace and the future of the world, as well as the blood poured by those who fell in this long period of our history, and the suffering felt by so many people in the territories where the war had impacted directly all led up to this great day. Of the millions who answered the call, millions less died in battle in the uniforms of the Allied armed forces in Europe, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific and in naval operations everywehre, while millions still lived long for the great day of victory to arrive on the 2nd of September, 1945, exactly 74 years ago.
In remembering the great victory celebrated today we recall the great deeds performed by thebrave men and women of the Allies’ armed forces and paramilitary guerillas in conventional and unconventional operations in the land, air and sea, whose adversity in battle, determination, iron-willed strength, courage, friendship, bravery and perserverance, and above all the readiness to sacrifice life and limb for the sake for the cause of the defeat of the ideologies that begun this conflict eight decades past, as well as those in the home front whose eagerness, determination and hard work helped support those in the field. We also remember the millions who fell in battle and the wounded, whose legacy still remain in our memories, as well as the commanders of all the Allied fronts, commands and military active and reserve formations who steered the course in which our joint forces fought the war to its conclusion. In these changing times, whereas the ideologies that caused this war have manifested once more in the world in this very age, more than ever before in our days we all must remember the legacy left behind by these heroes, who the world honors as the “Greatest Generation” ever to have lived on this earth, now only by the thousands due to old age, who are the reason for the freedoms we live today and for the determination of our present generations to build on a brighter tomorrow for humankind. It is they who by their combined efforts through intense battles that changed humankind in sites like Dunkirk, Leningrad, the Brest Fortress, Moscow, Tula, Borodino, Sevastopol, El Alamein, Tobruk, Stalingrad, Kursk, Normandy, Caretan, Paris, Minsk, Monte Cassino, Eindhoven, Rome, Smolensk, Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa, Lyon, Bastogne, Warsaw, Bryansk, Anapa, Smolensk, Lviv, Shanghai, Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Peninsula, Corregidor Island, Singapore, Besang Pass, Hong Kong, Wuhan, Midway Island, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, the Santa Cruz Islands, Belgrade, Sofia, the Caucasus, Karelia, Cologne, Xiamen, Budapest, Tunis and many more, in the land, air, and sea, from every terrain and in any weather condition, from the sands of the Sahara, up to the Normandy beaches, the British skies, the forests and plains of the Low Countries, the mighty mountains and valleys of the Alps and Balkans, the marshes at Pripyat, the Ukrainian steppes to the Arctic and the snowy lands of Scandinavia, towards the jungles of Myanmar and the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines and Indonesia, in the changing terrains and landscapes of China and Korea, and in the Pacific Islands and New Guinea, in both conventional battles and unconventional actions on land, air, and sea by the Allied military forces, in covert actions committed by the Allied intelligence services, in combat actions and active activities by the pro-Allied partisan forces, and in pro-war relief and morale-boosting labor by the home front civilians and workers in the military and civil industries,in culture and the arts, in the press, film and television, in businesses and enterprises, and as sportsmen and women in sports ended not just the Axis political, economic, military and ideological threat to our independence and liberty but also ensured the survival of the principles of freedom, peace, progress, economic development, culture and care for the environment for the generations of today and of the future to come.
Marking this great anniversary, with deep respect and profound gratitude we today honor these millions of heroes, who, through their personal and combined efforts, secured the final victory we honor today against the Axis Powers, ending once and for all their evil plans for the domination of the world and the repression of peoples. Today and always may we by our words and actions recall the memory of these men and women who served during those years of combat in every corner of the world who are even in this present time and in a modern way of life are still honored not just by battle honors and monuments but also in various works and in radio, television, film and digital media, and who today we, the descendants of this heroic and great generation of heroes, and the generations of tomorrow must keep in our minds and hearts, among them the men and women of the intelligence services who helped provide the Allied military leadership with information on enemy locations and movements, Easy Company of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, formerly 4th Brigade Combat Team and now 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, United States Army, the brave men of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th and 7th Marine Regiments, the tankers of the 2nd Armored Division, the aviators and air crews of the 8th Air Force, and all our sportsmen and women who served under the colours of the Allied military forces during the long war and helped win the definite victory against tyranny and oppresion, be forever in our memories and our profound remembrance, not just by their families and descendants but by the very people they fought and died for in the fields of battle, the frontlines, the concentration camps and the home front, and by the people and youth of today and our future generations of men and women, most especially to all considering careers in the uniformed services, so that their legacies to the peoples of the world will be conserved for posterity and for the sake of those who will follow in their footsteps today and in the future. On this day of celebration for millions of people all over the globe we once again send our greetings to the hundreds of thousands of men and women in active service and in the reserves in the armed forces, police, public security, forestry, border security, civil defense and emergency services of the Allied combatant countries and their families,our working people, agricultural workers and those working in science and technology, education, tourism, culture and the arts and in the mass media and the press and all our sportsmen and women, as well as our military and civil uniformed service veterans and their families, and the families of all who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for the defense of our principles and of our liberty and independence. As we today celebrate the 74th year of the great victory against the Axis Powers in the Asia-Pacific, let us not forget them as well, for these are the great men and women who are the descendants to the millions who fought for this great victory and are the ones tasked to carry the flames of this great victory into the future. May we forever never ever forget the Allied heroes and martyrs of the Second World War in Europe, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific who all through these years of warfare helped make possible the victory we celebrate today, 74 years on to the day of the conclusion of this war and of the victory against the Axis Powers in all the theaters of this global conflict, and as we begin the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of this war, all the more we look forward towards the 80th anniversary of its glorious conclusion, ready to inform the families and relatives of the millions who served that forever may their legacy inspire us all to fight for the freedom and independence of the peoples of the free world!
To all of you, our dear living veterans of this war who still are with us, rest assured that as you all live our remaining days on this earth, we will forever honor and remember the great victory you all won against the forces of international fascism, imperialism, dictatorship, racism, xenophobia and totalitarianism symbolized by the Axis Powers, carry onwards the memories of your service with the armed forces of the victorious Allied Powers and instill in our future generations the value of patriotism, courage, audacity, bravery, cooperation, respect, harmony and dignity, and above all, the value of helping in the defense of the country and people for the continued survival of our freedom and independence, towards the goal of a better tomorrow strong and free for our children and grandchildren. By your legacy we therefore promise to forever honor your combined sacrifices and contribution to the victorious conclusion of this long war, to work hard to defend the principles of independence and sovereignty and give all our time and talent in labor in times of war and peace and in times of disaster and need for the sake of building a stronger, prosperous and independent world by building up our economy, fighting the ills of our current society, improving education, help preserve the environment, promote culture and the arts as well as local traditions and the way of life of aboriginal and Native American communities, promote and protect the freedom of religion and the sanctity of human lives, promote a healthy lifestyle and a sporting way of life, and forever honor the places and people who are part of our history while maintaining readiness to instill in our future generations a spirit of preparedness to serve their country and people to the best of their ability and fight the evils that are still present in our world of today!
On this very great day of our history and in the history of humanity, this very important day in which we celebrate as one people the 74th year anniversary of the official glorious and victorious conclusion of the 6-year long Second World War, and the official surrender of the military forces of the Empire of Japan, we greet all of you the people of the free world, and most especially to all of you our remaining veterans of this long and great conflict, who helped win this great victory and opened the gates for a better future for all of humanity, as heroes who risked even their lives for the defeat of the military and political might of the Axis Powers, to all you our veterans of succeeding conflicts and in UN peacekeeping operations worldwide and to all and of our men and women and veterans of the military and civil uniformed services and uniformed youth groups from all the Allied combatant countries as we today mark 74 years since the final defeat of the Axis Powers in the Asia-Pacific and the victory over the Empire of Japan!
For all of us, it wil forever be a day of remembrance and celebration of the great victory in which our forebears won against the might of the Axis Powers all over the world, and a day in which we will forever uphold the legacy of the millions who died for the values that are worth defending and fighting for, then as in today. We will never stop honoring the blessed memory of these men and women who sacrificed their lives for the freedom and independence of our world. We will never stop reminding our children and future generations of the cost of the freedoms we celebrate. And we shall always light up the legacy in which these millions of men and women lived and fought for, which is the great victory that we celebrate today.
Today, we celebrate with all of you, the people of the free world and forever treasure in our hearts and minds the memory and legacy left behind by these the millions of men and women who 74 years ago celebrated the conclusion of such a war that forever changed our world and a war that they won against the forces of the Axis Powers at the cost of millions of lives lost from the plains and mountains of Europe, the sands of northern Africa and the Middle East, towards the diverse lands of the Asia-Pacific. Today and always we continue to remember their sacrifice for the sake of us and for the generations to come who will forever honor and commemorate their contributions to freedoms we cherish to this day. Even as the growing tide of evil may be rising again, united with the men and women of our NATO armed forces and the armed forces of our allies abroad in the performance of their patriotic, internationalist and military duties for the sake of the freedom and independence of the peoples of the free world, armed with the best and modern equipment, arms, vehicles, ships and aircraft, and united with the public security services and the hard work of our people of all sectors of society, no obstacle cannot be overcome, no problem can be left unsolved and no stone left unturned in our efforts to forever maintain the legacy left behind by these heroes of the Second World War, who fought at the cost of their lives to win the victory that we celebrate not just on this day but also every day of our lives!
And in conclusion, as we today mark this historic anniversary since the victory over Japan and the conclusion of the Second World War, as we today mark it with remembrance and joyful celebration, may we who keep this sacred holiday and recall the millions who died to make this victory possible with respect and reverence especially for those who went before us shall be worthy of what they fought and died for, for building a world of peace, harmony and progress, a clean environment, and a brighter future for all our children and grandchildren - truly the very future that is truly worth defending and the very future our forefathers fought with their very own lives. With our greatest gratitude may we, the successors to this great generation of victors, always and forever treasure in our hearts all those who have gone before us and have entrusted to us the spirit of defending our freedom and liberty in all those years from the beginning of the war up to the great victories in which we honor today, everyday and in the years and decades to come! And may we forever cherish the victory won today, the very reason of the freedoms we live, and forever kindle the fire of victory that will enflame our memories both now and in the brighter tomorrow that is to come!
As the men of Easy Company would always say: WE STAND ALONE TOGETHER!
ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MLLIONS OF THE FALLEN AND THE HEROES AND VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC FROM 1939-1945, WHOSE LEGACY WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN BY ALL OF US TODAY AND BY ALL THE GENERATIONS TO COME!
ETERNAL GLORY TO ALL THOSE WHO GAVE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE FOR THE FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE OF OUR WORLD AGAINST FASCISM, NAZISM AND IMPERIALISM IN THE FIELDS OF BATTLE, THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AND IN THE HOME FRONT!
LONG LIVE THE VICTORIOUS MEN AND WOMEN IN THE SERVICE OF THE ALLIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN EUROPE, NORTHERN AFRICA AND THE ASIA-PACIFIC!
LONG LIVE ALL THE ALLIED MILITARY, PARAMILITARY AND CIVIL VETERANS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
LONG LIVE THE INVINCIBLE AND FOREVER VICTORIOUS PEOPLE OF THE FREE WORLD AND ALL OUR SERVING ACTIVE AND RESERVE SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN AND VETERANS OF THE ARMED SERVICES OF ALL THE COMBATANT ALLIED COUNTRIES THAT HELPED WIN THIS GREAT WAR AGAINST FASCISM, NAZISM AND IMPERIALISM, AS WELL AS ALL OUR ACTIVE AND RESERVE SERVICE PERSONNEL, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES AND VETERANS OF THE POLICE, FIREFIGHTING, FORESTRY, BORDER CONTROL, CUSTOMS AND RESCUE SERVICES AS WELL AS OUR YOUTH OF TODAY AND THE CHILDREN OF OUR TOMORROW WHO WILL CARRY ON THE LEGACY OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE THEM, ESPECIALLY TO THE MILLIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO TOOK PART IN THIS GREAT WORLD WAR!
LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS 74TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE PACIFIC AND CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATERS OF OPERATIONS AND THE GREAT VICTORY OVER THE FORCES OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN AND THE AXIS POWERS!
GLORY TO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND FRANCE, TOGETHER WITH THE ARMED SERVICES OF THE OTHER VICTORIOUS COMBATANT COUNTRIES OF THE ALLIED POWERS, GUARDIAN DEFENDERS OF OUR DEMOCRATIC WAY OF LIFE, OUR FREEDOM AND OUR LIBERTY AND GUARANTEE OF A FUTURE WORTHY OF OUR GENERATIONS TO COME!
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO ALL OVER THE WORLD, A VERY HAPPY 74TH VICTORY OVER JAPAN DAY!
And may I repeat the immortal words of the Polish National Anthem:
Poland has not yet perished, so long as we still live!
CURRAHEE! AIR ASSAULT! ARMY STRONG! SEMPER FI!
Ooooooooooooooooooraaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
2330h, September 2, 2019, the 242th year of the United States of America and the 151st of Canada, the 244th year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 125th of the International Olympic Committee, the 123rd of the Olympic Games, the 78th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 74th since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, the 7th since the attacks on Benghazi, the 14th of Operation Red Wings, the 72nd of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Armed Forces and the 52nd of the modern Canadian Armed Forces.
Semper Fortis John Emmanuel Ramos Makati City, Philippines Grandson of the late Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.)
(Requiem for a Soldier) (Honor by Hans Zimmer) (Slavsya from Mikhail Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar) (Victory Day by Lev Leshenko) (Last Post) (Taps) (Rendering Honors)
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Events 9.2
44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his Philippicae (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them over the following months. 31 BC – Final War of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium: Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra. 1192 – The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade. 1561 – Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy. 1649 – The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro. 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral. 1752 – Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar. 1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded. 1792 – During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers. 1806 – A massive landslide destroys the town of Goldau, Switzerland, killing 457. 1807 – The British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 1856 – The Tianjing incident takes place in Nanjing, China. 1859 – The Carrington Event is the strongest geomagnetic storm on record. 1862 – American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run. 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign. 1867 – Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner. 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town. 1898 – Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan. 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. 1912 – Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America. 1935 – The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400. 1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany. 1944 – The last execution of a Finn in Finland will take place when soldier Olavi Laiho is executed by shooting in Oulu. 1945 – World War II: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. 1945 – Communist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the end of the Nguyễn dynasty. 1946 – The Interim Government of India is formed, headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president with the powers of a Prime Minister. 1957 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam becomes the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. 1958 – A USAF RC-130 is shot down by fighters over Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed. 1960 – The first election of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The Tibetan community observes this date as Democracy Day. 1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. 1968 – Operation OAU begins during the Nigerian Civil War. 1970 – NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. 1984 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia. 1985 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead. 1987 – In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May. 1990 – Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void. 1992 – The 7.7 Mw Nicaragua earthquake affected the west coast of Nicaragua. With a Ms–Mw disparity of half a unit, this tsunami earthquake triggered a tsunami that caused most of the damage and casualties, with at least 116 killed. Typical runup heights were 3–8 meters (9.8–26.2 ft). 1998 – Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; all 229 people onboard are killed. 1998 – The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide. 2009 – The Andhra Pradesh, India helicopter crash occurred near Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles (74 km) from Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India. Fatalities included Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. 2010 – Israel-Palestinian conflict: the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are launched by the United States. 2013 – The Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens at 10:15 PM at a cost of $6.4 billion, after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the old span. 2019 – Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 hurricane, devastates the Bahamas, killing at least five.
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How can exiled Tibetans secure India’s backing in the struggle against China?
As exiled Tibetans vote, calls grow for India to help them stand up to China
Candidates jostling to be the CTA’s new leader have pledged to take a more hardline stance towards China and need India’s help.
But observers say as long as the Dalai Lama is around, his ‘Middle Way’ approach of peaceful autonomy with China will Not work with Hegemonic China.
In the first week of January, Tibetan refugees across the globe, from New York to the freezing heights of Ladakh along the India-China border, cast their votes to elect a new political leader and members of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile – with the Dalai Lama’s advancing age and the global rise of an increasingly assertive Beijing chief among their concerns.
At least three candidates have emerged as clear front-runners to head the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), which has its seat in the northern Indian city of Dharamsala. Among them is a common strand of resolve – to take a hardened stance against China, win more friends sympathetic to the Tibetan cause, and prod New Delhi to speak up against Beijing.
Thousands of Tibetans live in India, but New Delhi, afraid of upsetting Beijing, has been reluctant to openly engage with the Tibetan diaspora. In 2018, when the CTA planned public events across India to mark six decades of exile, New Delhi quickly told officials to skip the celebrations, forcing the CTA to cancel the events.
Yet the latest strategy to push New Delhi comes as its ties with Beijing have reached a low – the two militaries have been locked in a tense, often violent border stand-off for the past eight months that has brought tens of thousands of soldiers into a face-to-face confrontation. In the process, economic ties between the two have frayed.
The three candidates leading the CTA polls – Penpa Tsering, Kelsang Dorjee Aukatsang, and Gyari Dolma – have promised stronger approaches to deal with the current stalemate between exiled Tibetan leaders and the Chinese government. Talks between both sides were last held in January 2010 but stalled before an outcome was reached.
The current head of the CTA, Lobsang Sangay – who in November became the first administration leader to visit the White House in 60 years – is serving his second and final term.
Of the three finalists, only two will be shortlisted for the final round of polling on April 11. First-round results will officially be declared on February 8, but early results have already trickled out through Tibetan news sites as they are announced in Tibetan communities across the globe.
Leading the race is 54-year-old Tsering, the Tibetan parliament-in-exile, with over 23,000 votes. Tsering has said that achieving a resolution on the Tibetan issue is his top priority. He will “disseminate realities within Tibet to the world” and “solicit support for the freedom movement.”
The 53-year-old Aukatsang, a resident of Dharamsala, the CTA seat, currently sits in second place with about 13,000 votes. He has promised to “strengthen the Tibetan struggle” by stepping up Tibetan advocacy efforts in India and having a strategy specific to that country.
Dolma, 57, who is also based in Dharamsala and is in third place with some 12,000 votes, has said she would push India “to recognize Tibet’s historical independent status,” despite New Delhi‘s stance that it recognizes the “one China” policy and considers Tibet to be an integral part of China.
B.R. Deepak, a professor of Chinese and China studies at the Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian studies at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, said three main factors were influencing the candidates’ and the CTA’s policy considerations – the India- China border stand-off; the Tibet Policy and Support Act of 2020, which was approved by the US Congress in late December and backed the Dalai Lama on the issue of his succession; and the stalled talks between the CTA and China.
“All these factors embolden the CTA to harden its stance with China on Occupied Tibet,” he said, adding that the CTA was especially focused on getting India to change or upgrade its policy of keeping its distance from the Tibetan leadership.
Many Tibetans believe this needs to change if China wants to avoid the enslavement and the incremental warfare being raged against it by China.
While the community is also looking for India to take a firmer approach to China against the backdrop of rising Anti-China sentiment around the world and see it as an opportunity to regain their freedom from the illegal occupation of Tibet by China.
“Many Tibetans want India to counter China by being more assertive in different aspects, from trade to defense. One big step would be to organize a large-scale boycott of Chinese goods being imported into India,” said Gonpo Dhondup, the president of the Tibetan Youth Congress, one of the largest NGOs in the Tibetan refugee community.
Although the effectiveness of such efforts from the CTA remains to be seen, domestic political pressure for the Indian government to use Tibet as a diplomatic tool against China has been on the rise since the border stand-off began in May last year. Members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for example, have been demanding that the Dalai Lama be awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, in a move that would likely draw severe flak from Beijing.
Wangden Kyab, a senior researcher for the human rights group Tibet Watch in Dharamsala, said candidates in this election were “taking up more hard-line positions against China” – a departure from the 2016 polls, when CTA head Lobsang Sangay ran on a relatively moderate “Five-Fifty” strategy of trying to achieve Tibetan regional autonomy in five years while preparing for 50 years of struggle for the cause.
An academic who focused on Tibetan issues and spoke to This Week in Asia on condition of anonymity said the candidates’ bolder positions on China were significant because the next leader of the CTA “could very effectively advocate with different nations across the world through diplomacy and ensure that the Tibetan independence cause has more supporters.”
The academic added that the elected leader’s responsibilities included ensuring the welfare and development of exiled Tibetans worldwide, but especially in India, where the CTA is based. Of the 130,000 Tibetans in exile worldwide, more than half live in India, And a large number are under Chinese Subjugation within Tibet, as China Illegally occupies Tibet.
Kyab from Tibet Watch said even younger Tibetans were asking more probing questions about the CTA’s stance towards China and how to get the Indian government to advance the Tibetan cause.
“They are pushing the conversation towards whether we need to change the course of the Tibetan freedom struggle towards more concrete, stronger ways,” he said, pointing to debates over the merits of the Dalai Lama’s “Middle Way” approach, which advocates autonomy for Tibet, against demands for independence.
Some of these conversations are also driven by Tibetans’ concerns over the health and well-being of the Dalai Lama, as the community’s revered spiritual head is now 85.
Chinese authorities have repeatedly criticized him, labeling him a “separatist” and even calling him a “wolf in monk’s robes” for his tireless advocacy around the world for Tibetan autonomy.
There are also worries over the Dalai Lama’s succession. In a move bitterly opposed by Tibetan refugees, China has insisted that its successor will be appointed by Beijing, keeping with the country’s policies on the reincarnation of living Buddhas.
The Dalai Lama’s health is a factor for many young Tibetans, including 38-year-old Lobsang Sither. The digital security program director at the Tibet Action Institute – an organization that works on information and communication technologies issues with Tibetans worldwide – has never been involved in politics. Still, this time he is running for a seat in the Tibetan parliament-in-exile.
“It is a very important election for us. With His Holiness’ advancing age, younger Tibetans need to step up and take up more responsibilities,” the Dharamsala resident said.
Last month, Sither was named by Wired magazine as one of the 32 innovators around the world who were building a better future through his work in improving digital security among Tibetans and fending off “targeted espionage attacks from mainland China.”
Either said, his work had pushed him to the realization that drove his candidature. “This could be one of the most important decades of our lives,” he said.
All the same, community insiders said the CTA was unlikely to take a drastically different turn. “As long as the Dalai Lama is around, the Tibetan political leadership is unlikely to waver from the Middle Way approach,” said the academic who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Deepak from Jawaharlal Nehru University said there was unlikely but needs to be a “drastic change” in New Delhi’s approach. “If there is, then India will have to prepare for China responding to its vulnerabilities in various Indian states,” he said. Which China has been cultivating in there an all-out war against the Indian Sub-Continent. Including aiding and abetting terrorists in Pakistan and neighboring states
Modified from source: South China Morning Post
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