[Peace] Fwd: [marxmail] August 12-22, 1945: Washington Starts the Korean and Vietnam Wars - CounterPunch.org

[C. G. Estabrook]

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> From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3 at panix.com>
> Subject: [marxmail] August 12-22, 1945: Washington Starts the Korean and Vietnam Wars - CounterPunch.org
> Date: August 16, 2020 at 7:42:28 AM CDT
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> By H. Bruce Franklin
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> August 14, 1945. The day Japan surrendered. I was eleven year old. I was crammed in the back of a pickup packed with other boys and girls, all yelling our hearts out as loud as we could to be heard over the cacophony of honking horns and howling air raid sirens. We were part of an impromptu motorcade weaving through the evening streets of our Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn. Everywhere we went—past the sidewalk fruit and vegetable stands, the storefront A&P exuding the smell of freshly ground coffee, the fish market and the kosher delicatessen along Avenue J, the small row houses and big apartment houses on the side streets, along Coney Island Avenue, with its rows of small stores dotted with small restaurants and soda fountains, where the electric trolley cars were clanging their bells nonstop—more and more cheering people poured onto the sidewalks, waving American flags and homemade signs, hugging, dancing. We kids in the truck were all screaming, “Peace! Peace! The war is over!” We believed this was the end of not just this war but of war itself, that we were all going to live the rest of our lives in a prosperous and victorious nation, on a peaceful planet.
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