{"id":2009,"date":"2014-05-08T15:49:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2020-11-16T10:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:52:56","slug":"how-to-celebrate-victory-in-europe-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"How to Celebrate Victory in Europe Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lieutenant<\/a>Today is Victory in Europe day or Day of Liberation in the Czech Republic (Den osvobozen\u00ed). As there is no school today in the CR, I have been thinking of ways to celebrate this hallowed day. And, though it couldn\u2019t possibly carry the gravitas of Houseplant Appreciation Day (January 10th) or Pistol Patent Day (February 25th), maybe we should take a few minutes to commemorate today in some way.<\/p>\n

Party Like it\u2019s 1945<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK, you\u2019re a young GI, you\u2019re in Europe, you\u2019ve just been cured off the syphilis, Hitler is dead, the kid probably isn\u2019t yours, and the war is over, how do you celebrate?<\/p>\n

You. Drink.<\/p>\n

That’s right folks, raise a Pilsner, a bourbon, or a glass of milk in commemoration. It’s a good excuse, anyway.<\/p>\n

I woke up this morning to find two receipts from two different pubs in my pocket, a vague recollection of stuffing money into a G-string, and a bone yard of chicken bones in a cardboard bucket with The Colonel\u2019s face on it.<\/p>\n

In other words, mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Movie Marathon<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK. Last night I lifted a (two dozen) pint(s) to the go-Bots and the 101st Airborne, so now I am suffering through a hangover that would sideline Keith Richards.<\/p>\n

What to do?<\/p>\n

If you answered: \u201cmove to the couch, shroud get under a blanket, eat cold KFC and have a movie marathon,\u201d then you are a frickin\u2019 genius.<\/p>\n

Today, it shall start with the Band of Brothers marathon. Then I\u2019ll have dinner with Kelly\u2019s Heroes and dessert with A Bridge Too Far. You could also dip into the well of WWII classics, such as The Longest Day, Patton (which shows Pilsn), or Saving Private Ryan.<\/p>\n

Really, it\u2019s just a good excuse to watch a good war flick and eat popcorn.<\/p>\n

Go to the Internet<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is for the person who wants to celebrate VE Day but doesn\u2019t want to change their daily routine in any way, shape, or form. You will spend all day on the computer and the Internet, but why not read a little about WWII to change things up.<\/p>\n

The Buzzfeed article features 12 interesting facts about WWII, including some fascinating tidbits. Do you know how Monopoly helped POWs break out of camps? Or did you know that Japan and Russia have never officially signed a peace treaty?<\/p>\n

Yeah, that\u2019s probably going to come up in the future.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/briangalindo\/12-interesting-facts-about-world-war-ii-that-you-might-not-k<\/a><\/p>\n

Or you can check out this Buzzfeed picture gallery featuring veterans arriving In Washington DC for the opening of the World War II Memorial. This will either make you smile, cry, or both.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/bennyjohnson\/25-happy-faces-of-wwii-veterans-as-they-arrive-in-washington<\/a><\/p>\n

Whatever you do on the Internet I do not recommend taking this internet quiz called How Long Will I Live? I did not need to know that I am going to die at 79.2 years old. I am 39.6 years old, therefore I am halfway dead. I didn\u2019t need to know that.<\/p>\n

How Long Will I Live?<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/gosset.wharton.upenn.edu\/mortality\/perl\/CalcForm.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Be Thankful<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seriously, folks. I know it is clich\u00e9d, but you should be thankful down to your goofy five-toed running shoes. Be appreciative of the men and women from every country who, you know, saved the world 70 years ago. And while you\u2019re at it, you might want to think about the millions of others since then who have gone somewhere they didn\u2019t want to and did something you never had to do.<\/p>\n

So, somewhere in the middle of taking internet quizzes, looking at cats, and bitching about everything that happens in the world, think about those who helped make sure it isn\u2019t now a much worse place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Victory in Europe day or Day of Liberation in the Czech Republic (Den osvobozen\u00ed). As there is no school today in the CR, I have been thinking of ways to celebrate this hallowed day. And, though it couldn\u2019t possibly carry the gravitas of Houseplant Appreciation Day (January 10th) or Pistol Patent Day (February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EvEu-wp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damiengaleone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}