COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Tuesday marks 80 years since the Japanese Army officially surrendered in Tokyo Bay — marking the end of WWII.
Sponsored by a local historic preservation nonprofit known as Tnovsa Global Commons, speakers at the event called “South Carolina Remembers” included Veterans of other conflicts, local professors, lawmakers, and authors.
“The men and women who answered that call were not soldiers by trade, they were sons of farmers and sharecroppers, clerks and small stores, young men and women working in mills and classrooms — ordinary Americans living quiet lives until history came knocking with the sounds of bombs at Pearl Harbor,” says Mike Bedenbaugh, author of “Reclaiming the Republic.”…