Today, 75 years ago
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Europe celebrates May 8 as the day the war ended. We call that VE (Victory, Europe) Day. VJ Day was August 15th and was a much bigger celebration here, because then it was finally over.
When I lived in Paris in 2002 it was a public holiday, things were closed.
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The UK had planned all kinds of celebrations for this - they moved the normal May Day holiday to today. Sadly, but not surprisingly pretty much everything's cancelled that would have involved any kind of social contact.
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Never eat pears!
Rather disappointing that the chart doesn't show Canadian WW2 casualties.
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There are some significant differences with this:
I have no idea which is more accurate. They might be counting different things.
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