SATURDAY MARKED THE END OF TULIP TIME.  IT ALSO MARKED THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF V E DAY, THE OFFICIAL END OF HOSTILITIES. GERMANY'S UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER HAPPENED AT O241 MAY 7, 1945 IN GENERAL EISENHOWER'S OFFICE IN RHEIMS.  THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE BY WINSTON CHURCHILL MAY 8. MOST OF THE WORLD CELEBRATED WILDLY. I WAS AT FT. MEADE, MARYLAND, AWAITING SHIPMENT TO THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS.  IN THE COURSE OF A FEW DAYS, OUR COLD WEATHER CLOTHING WAS EXCHANGED FOR WARM WEATHER GEAR AND WE WERE SHIPPED ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO CAMP STONEMAN, CALIFORNIA FOR SHIPMENT OVER SEAS THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, AND WOUND UP IN THE PHILLIPINES.  THERE WAS STILL THE JAPANESE TO DEAL WITH THERE.  HITLER AND MUSSOLINI WERE DEAD, TOJO WAS NEXT.

DID YOU REMEMBER V E DAY SATURDAY? MOST HAVE ALREADY FORGOTTEN.  IF YOU WERE ALIVE AT THAT TIME, WHERE WERE YOU?