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Article: American Legion Calls on Houses of Worship to Commemorate End of World War II
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- U.S. Newswire
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- August 27, 1997
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The leader of the American
Legion has called upon all houses of worship to commemorate the end
of World War II by ringing their bells at 9:04 a.m., local time,
on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
That's the exact moment that representatives of the imperial
Japanese government signed the surrender treaty aboard the
battleship
Missouri in 1945, officially ending the bloodiest conflict of the
20th Century.
"The restoration of peace after a six-year conflict that claimed
tens of millions of lives is too important to this nation to become
a footnote in the history books," ...