May 8th, 1945. "V-E Day." The date the Nazis laid down their arms in unconditional surrender. This was not only quite a party, though tempered somewhat knowing that Japan was going to fight with such relentlessness to the bitter end {turned out to be very bitter for them...twice}, but you had to have the news trickle down much slower than OBL social media fueling because President Al Gore had neither invented the internet, Twitter and global warming/cooling {whichever one is really f'ing us up these days. Especially in the midwest and southwest where one is experiencing 'biblical' floods-the other watching their precious shared water resources vaporize due to increased usage/population}.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th370QmFtk8 {Mother told me, yes she told me, I'd meet girls like you..."} 'Surrender,' Live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBDJT-5hZSk {From the captured 'Eagles Nest' via "Band of Brothers." If you haven't watched the mini-series; shame on you-but 'the present' mentioned at the end of the clip from heroic commander to faithful, hard-drinking, XO was the keys to Hermann Goering's famous wine cellar. Happy V-E Day!!"}