Feature Letter of May 8th, 2024
Billard, Lewis G.
May 8th 1945
At nine this morning we had a parade and the C. O. made the formal announcement that peace had finally come to this continent.
But all is not happiness, for I saw some wounded men being transferred from their ambulances to the Dakotas (transport planes) on their way back to England. For those men V. E. means little- especially the one lad I saw with both arms missing.
You remember after the last war there was cheering, etc. since the war was over. Well, I hope it won't be so loud this time, for I figure that there is just as hard a job to be done now that our weapons are laid down.