{"id":328598,"date":"2025-08-08T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328598\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:58:14","slug":"vj-day-80-reflections-in-sandwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/328598\/","title":{"rendered":"VJ Day 80 reflections in Sandwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image image--feature\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/VJ_Day_80_2025___Square_graphic.png\" alt=\"VJ Day 80 - Friday 15 August 2025 at Civic Square, Oldbury, 10.45am-11.15am\"\/>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Sandwell Council will mark the 80th\u00a0anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) on Friday 15 August.<\/p>\n<p>A commemoration event will pay tribute to those who served in the Second World War and recognise the end of global conflict in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Join us from 10.45am at the War Memorial, outside Sandwell Council House in Oldbury Civic Square, for a 30-minute service led and organised by the Royal British Legion and supported by Sandwell Council.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Sandwell Councillor Steve Melia invites people to share the commemoration.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Melia said: \u201cWhile many celebrated\u00a0VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), fewer people are aware of the hardships faced in Asia and the Pacific. This 80th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day,\u00a0which followed the dropping of the first atomic bombs), is a moment to remember, reflect and recognise those who served far from home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone is invited to attend this civic event, which will include a two-minute silence at 11am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can also observe the national two-minute silence wherever you may be. This will\u00a0take place\u00a0at 12 noon to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ve-vjday80.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit the VE\/VJ Day 80 website<\/a>\u00a0to discover national and local events honouring the Second World War generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"meta meta--date\"><strong class=\"visually-hidden\">Published: <\/strong><br \/>\n                            Friday, 8th August 2025\n                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandwell Council will mark the 80th\u00a0anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) on Friday 15 August. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114994682545917573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}