On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the triumph of allied forces in Japan on August 15, Charles III wanted to pay tribute to the soldiers who served in Asia and the Pacific during World War II, and remember the cost of conflicts, in a preceding message broadcast this Friday by the Buckingham Palace.
It evokes the “courage” of veterans, the “horror” experienced by prisoners of war, but also “the immense price” paid by “the innocent civil populations” during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“His experience reminds us that the real cost of war goes beyond battlefields, affecting all aspects of life, a tragedy sadly illustrated by conflicts that are still unbridled in the world,” he adds.
33 honest veterans
At the end of the morning, 33 British veterans, Commonwealth or allied countries, from 96 to 105 years, served in Asia and Pacific, will be held during a ceremony on the National Memorial Arboretum website, in the center of England. More than 1,500 guests, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will attend this ceremony, marked for two minutes of silence and an overview of military planes.
On Thursday night, the Chief of British Government received veteran at Downing Street, after welcoming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who fights for the same values as those we were fighting there, “he said during this reception.
On August 6, 1945, the United States had abandoned an atomic bomb in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed three days later by another in Nagasaki’s, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people and precipitating the end of World War II with Japan capitulation on August 15.
Source: BFM TV
