{"id":336860,"date":"2025-08-11T22:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336860\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:41:20","slug":"vj-day-80-reflections-in-sandwell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336860\/","title":{"rendered":"VJ Day 80 reflections in Sandwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Sandwell Council will mark the 80th anniversary of Victory Over Japan Day on Friday 15 August.\n <\/p>\n

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

Join 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

The Mayor of Sandwell, Councillor Steve Melia invites people to share the commemoration. He said: \u201cWhile many celebrated VE Day, fewer people are aware of the hardships faced in Asia and the Pacific.<\/p>\n

“This 80th anniversary of VJ Day is a moment to remember, reflect and recognise those who served far from home. Everyone is invited to attend this civic event, which will include a two-minute silence at 11am.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can also observe the national two-minute silence wherever you may be. This will take place at 12 noon to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.”<\/p>\n

Visit the VE\/VJ Day 80 website<\/a> to discover national and local events honouring the Second World War generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandwell Council will mark the 80th anniversary of Victory Over Japan Day on Friday 15 August. A commemoration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-online","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-stourbridge","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012546585506079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336860","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=336860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}