“Mama Said” (there’d be days like this) was a 1961 Shirelles’ hit song whose lyrics could apply to two historic days the week including Sunday, Sept. 2, and Thursday, Sept. 6, 1945.

You’re the Silent Generation if you were born either date, Virgo stateside and Rooster in China, and if true, you and the rest of us will soon enjoy Coca-Cola and Pepsi returning to cane sugar sweetnin’.

On Sept. 2, 1945, Japanese Empire representatives signed surrender documents aboard the U.S.S Missouri, ending World War II, giving Americans/our allies something to celebrat I’m still tryintg to make reading out of it but aqm tired of ite, even 80 years later.

After formal signing ceremonies, captured in moving pictures and photographs, Col. Bernard Thielen transported those critical documents and a second

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