Sixty-seven years ago today...

...combat ended in the Pacific Theater: the Instrument of Surrender of Japan was signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

By Christmas Day my dad was back in the United States waiting for discharge at Fort Bragg. Dad got impatient and went AWOL to see mom. Turned out if he had waited a few hours he'd have been free and clear. Instead they made him wait another week.