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The
War is Over
The
war is over! Completely! Today is V J Day . . . . Just think,
nine days ago people were prepared for a long long war but that
was before they discovered the Atom Bomb. It is a bomb about
the size of a baseball some say... One of those bombs would
completely destroy Elkhart. At least most of it . . . . Japan
has unconditionally surrendered .... Daddy, Pat, Mother, Grandma,
& I went downtown & everybody was going stark, raving,
hysterically mad. The street was jammed. People were yelling,
honking horns .... Everybody was happy . . . except the loved
ones of those 152 Elkhart boys who sacraficed [sic] all they
had . . . . We laugh and cry, we honk horns, yell and throw
things, and we go to church and pray. The war is over. All wars
are over[,] we hope.
Janet
Sollet of Elkhart, Indiana, August 14, 1945, in William M. Tuttle,
Jr., "Daddy's Gone to War," p. 214.
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