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The Australian War Memorial's special #VPDay symposium "Interpreting Australia's Second World War: previewing Anzac Hall" is now online: www.youtube.com/live/P6vGj8_....

For more #WWII see, including author talks, see: www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-t...

#WeHaveWays #WWII #VJDay80
August 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
clarebryden.bsky.social
“...hear the hundreds of thousands of shadows
     prophesying
          an unpeopled future.”

#NeverAgain #NoMoreHiroshimas #Lakenheath #MAD #Disarmament #Peace

#Poem #Poetry for #VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay
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VJ Day 2025
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August 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
seamuseum.bsky.social
80 years since Victory in the Pacific
August 1945: WWII in the Pacific ends, reshaping the world and Australia forever.

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📷 Image: Victory in the Pacific Day celebrations, Melbourne, 15 August 1945. AWM P02018.226

#VPDay #WWII #TheWorldRemade
August 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
citizenspartyau.bsky.social
Don’t base foreign policy on rewritten history
The lead editorial of the Australian Alert Service 3 September 2025
#auspol #VPDay #VJDay #WWIIChina80
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Don’t base foreign policy on rewritten history - Australian Citizens Party
3 September 2025 Vol. 27 No. 34 Michael Lindsay was [...]
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September 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
vincewall.bsky.social
Coming up this Thursday is the anniversary of #VPDay - 15 August - the end of the Second World War in 1945. On September 2 1945, the formal instrument of surrender was signed on the USS Missouri bring 6 years (1939-45) of conflict to an end.
November 20, 2024 at 1:30 AM
clarebryden.bsky.social
“And there will be no release for captives released
     to stumble their way back
          to an indeterminate existence...”

#NeverAgain #NoMoreWar #Peace #Justice
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"VJ Day 2025" - Clare Bryden
"hear the hundreds of thousands of shadows / prophesying / an unpeopled future"
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August 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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🧵2/2...the end of #WWII in Europe after Germany’s surrender. Victory in the Pacific Day (#VJDay or #VPDay), marking the end of the war in the Pacific, was celebrated on September 2, 1945, after Japan’s formal surrender. #CanadaRemembers #LeCanadaSeSouvient #VEDay #VE80 #VJ80
April 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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The Imperial War Museum holds photographs of the liberated PoWs in Burma—harrowing

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August 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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“Where the bells of Urakami tolled
     a thousand penitents making their confession
          will be cindered again and again and again until—“

#NeverAgain #NoMoreNagasakis #Lakenheath #MAD #Disarmament #Peace
#Poem #Poetry for #VJ80 #VJDay #VJDay80 #VPDay #WW2
Alt text limited to 2,000 characters. Read the notes on this poem at https://clarebryden.co.uk/vj-day-2025/ VJ Day 2025 for Caroline and Michael And there was a great light, and their clothes became dazzling white and the appearance of their faces changed. And there was a cloud overshadowing them and they were terrified as they entered it. And they kept silent. - - - Behold the man! A shadow etched into a wall still. Stand to face his hypocentre. See the seared civilian flesh on his right hand and hear the hundreds of thousands of shadows prophesying an unpeopled future. Some have tried to lift their voices but what voices can be lifted when they have been silenced? Little boy and little girl fat man and thin woman— we the billions exist in spooked oblivion. Once a year or perhaps one day a decade our shadows tell us it is time to pay attention to the remnant on his left hand crying out crying for the rule of law and justice and peace! peace! peace! But they too have been silenced. There has been no peace no peace no peace for the shadows who cannot submit to such a hollow victory. Their broken hearts cannot be bound up. They were emptied out way back. Nor will the blinded recover their sight when the forces of evil must be unleashed to combat the forces of evil. And there will be no release for captives released to stumble their way back to an indeterminate existence remarking in their silence that war makes no heroes— heroes know only the shame shadowing them for pity’s sake! Where the bells of Urakami tolled a thousand penitents making their confession will be cindered again and again and again until— Be still. Listen. © Clare Bryden, 27 April 2025
August 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM