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Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (9 May Moscow Time). The Soviet government announced the victory early on 9 May after the signing ceremony in Berlin. Although the official inauguration occurred in 1945, the holiday became a non-labor day only in 1965.
In East Germany, 8 May was observed as Liberation Day from 1950 to 1966, and was celebrated again on the 40th anniversary in 1985. In 1967, a Soviet-style "Victory Day" was celebrated on 8 May. Since 2002, the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has observed a commemoration day known as the Day of Liberation from National Socialism, and the End of the Second World War.
The Russian Federation has officially recognized 9 May since its formation in 1991 and considers it a non-working holiday even if it falls on a weekend (in which case any following Monday will be a non-working holiday). The holiday was similarly celebrated while the country was part of the Soviet Union. Most other countries in Europe observe Victory in Europe Day (often abbreviated to VE Day, or V-E Day) on 8 May, and Europe Day on 9 May as national remembrance or victory days.
The Japanese delegation receives honors as they depart USS Missouri (BB-63) at the conclusion of the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945-un-edited-Not part of my personal collection
The day started out okay, but just went downhill from there. Lots of work stuff, an email from my son's teacher, good news that seemed canceled out by bad news in the same breath. I came home ready to wave the white flag in surrender. For most of it, all I can do is surrender. It is what it is. I will wake to a new day. And I'm sure that tomorrow will see me smiling. I just can't muster one up right now. So, this is me right now.
Surrender Ceremony: This image depicts the formal signing of the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. General Douglas Macarthur presided over the ceremonies.
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina, the Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Union infantry and cavalry forces under Gen. Philip Sheridan pursued and cut off the Confederates' retreat at the central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House. Lee launched a last-ditch attack to break through the Union forces to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of lightly armed cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was now backed up by two corps of federal infantry, he had no choice but to surrender with his further avenue of retreat and escape now cut off.
The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony of parade and the stacking of arms led by Confederate Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon to federal Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia with the parole of its nearly 28,000 remaining officers and men, free to return home without their major weapons but enabling men to take their horses and officers to retain their sidearms (swords and pistols), and effectively ending the war in Virginia.
This event triggered a series of subsequent surrenders across the South, in North Carolina, Alabama and finally Shreveport, Louisiana, for the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the West by June, signaling the end of the four-year-long war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
From April 2nd and the Fall of Petersburg to April 9th and the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Confederate and Federal armies engaged in skirmishes and battles, including a major battle at Sailor’s Creek. The Confederates were desperate to get to Lynchburg for supplies and to break out to join Confederate forces in North Carolina. The Federals sought peace as Lincoln envisioned it, starting with the destruction or surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The armies confronted each other on the gently rolling terrain in and around Appomattox Court House at dawn on April 9th. Confederates of the Secord Corps, under the leadership of Major General John B. Gordon, swept forward across the ridgelines to clash with the Federal cavalry of Major General Philip Sheridan. Initial assaults were successful, but Federal infantry from Major General Charles Griffin’s Fifth Corps and Major General John Gibbon’s Twenty Fourth Corps arrived after a forced march. These men, including some 5,000 United States Colored Troops, blocked Lee’s army from accessing roads to Lynchburg and Danville.
Confederates under the command of Lieutenant General James Longstreet could not provide support for Gordon because the Federal Second Corps of Major General Andrew A. Humphreys advanced against Longstreet’s troops. Grant, in a letter from April 7, had asked Lee to accept the “hopelessness of further resistance.” With his army surrounded, Lee now agreed with Grant’s assessment and ordered his officers to offer a white flag of truce.
Lee and Grant exchanged letters regarding the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Grant’s terms, reflecting Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and Lincoln’s recent guidance provided at City Point, Virginia, required a promise to surrender arms and not engage in further conflicts against the United States. Grant did not ask for unconditional surrender. Lee accepted the terms.
Sergeant Major William McCoslin, serving in the 29th Regiment USCI, declared in a May 1865 letter that “We the colored soldiers, have fairly won our rights by loyalty and bravery”. In contrast, Brigadier General Armistead Lindsay Long from the Army of Northern Virginia communicated that “It is impossible to describe the anguish of the troops when it was known that the surrender of the army was inevitable. Of all their trials, this was the greatest and hardest to endure”. On April 9, Colonel Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served as part of the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, chronicled that the “Rebels are half starved, and our men have divided their rations with them . . . . We did it cheerfully”. Brevet Major General Joshua Chamberlain stated that “Brave men may become good friends,” but Chamberlain further reported that a Confederate officer was more uncertain: “You’re mistaken, sir . . . . You may forgive us but we won’t be forgiven. There is rancor in our hearts . . . which you little dream of”.
On the evening of April 9, Pvt. Hiram W. Harding, who served in the 9th Virginia Cavalry Company D, described this poignant occasion in his diary: the “noble army of Northern Virginia was surrendered to day at ten O'clock & the Cavalry ordered to Buckingham courthouse there to be disbanded”. Federal officials printed parole passes for Confederate soldiers beginning on April 10th from the Clover Hill Tavern; the formal ceremony of the stacking of arms took place April 12th. The American myth of Appomattox, Grant, and Lee and their individual and nuanced symbolism sparked simultaneously with the surrender.
Written by Russ Wood, Appomattox Court House NHP Volunteer
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Submitted to Active Assignment Weekly: Infinity
WIT: I took this pic a few days ago before even checking on the weekly assignment, and have decided to submit it even though it does not seem to fit perfectly, but then infinity never does fit perfectly. It is perhaps a sense of vastness, of no end, or maybe of quiet wonder at the infinite turning of day into night, summer into fall, that makes me think there is some elusive quality of infinity here. Hmmm, a bit farfetched maybe, but whatever. I brightened this pic, and did my best at cloning and blending away a long string of electrical cables that bisected part of the sky and mountain. Apart from that the photo is pretty much untouched.
Series of 3 sculptures inspired by veiled marble statues by 18th century artists such as Giuseppe Sanmartino. These mixed media sculptures are being displayed in the Hitogata Ten art exhibition at Marunouchi, Tokyo 12th to 18th of October 2022.
Melancholy - veiled bust, 2022.
Sorrow - veiled figure form curled up on a pedestal, 2022.
Surrender - Standing figure with windswept garments, 2022.
There is a waiting list for the exhibition artworks that might be available for sale after the exhibition. Email me with "waiting list" as topic to get a chance to buy them after 19th.
The art gallery just posted photos from the Hitogata Ten exhibition where my artworks are being displayed at the moment!
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This shot was taken at the Severn Valley Railway, Bridgnorth to Kidderminster 1940s weekend on the 30th of June 2012. A great event with loads of people dressed in period costume and equipment of that era, also plenty of 1940s music to set the mood. Thankfully no rationing or bombs going off! It was taken using lumix g leica dg summilux 25mm.
These were taken at the Knitting Factory in 2008. It has the smallest stage I've ever shot on, so there was tons of cutting eachother off...running into eachother... close hand to hand combat! These are my best buds, and I shoot them more than anyone else I know. It shows the on-going saga of their career...
Johnston Surrender Memorial, Durham County, Route 70, June 1938, photo taken by Baker and Sharpe. Original chimney of farmhouse (Bennett Place) on porch of which surrender took place. From the Conservation and Development Department, Travel and Tourism Photo Files, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC.
The Unconditional Surrender statue at Tuna Harbor Park, San Diego CA, with the USS Carl Vinson docked in the background