V E Day Rumor Sparks Quiet Campus Celebration at KSU
Students at KSU reacted to rumors of V E Day with cautious joy. Radio broadcasts spread across campus as Ted Baskin and Mildred McCue led unofficial confirmations. Volunteers and faculty expressed gratitude while noting real danger and distant celebrations as families await homecomings and the end of the war in the Pacific.
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Truman Proclaims Day Of Thanksgiving After German Surrender
President Truman announced Germany’s unconditional surrender at 9 a m and urged a national day of prayer and dedication for victory and peace. Churchill echoed the moment as the war nears a formal end. The document notes continuing hostilities in Czechoslovakia despite the capitulation.
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Bowman voices solemn V E Day view at university
President Bowman says V E Day should be a time for prayer and rededication not humor. He warns that many lives have been lost and more will face danger before the Pacific war ends, urging focus on the task ahead.
V E Day as a Beginning for a Greater Task
The speech frames V E Day as a turning point from destruction to construction, stressing responsibility to rebuild material wealth and a new human society. It condemns war as barbaric and calls for reason, tolerance, justice, and brotherly love to rebuild nations and empires on solid foundations.
Harrington First European Casualty in North Africa
Pvt. Robert Killer Harrington is believed to be the first university casualty in the European war. He was killed in action in North Africa on February 15, 1943.
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V E Day Reflections at Kent State University
The piece frames V E Day as a call to finish the broader war effort through student action. It contrasts rededication to isolationism with a push for world peace and security, urging Kent State students to choose a path aligned with internationalism and the Four Freedoms.
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