Remembering V-E (Victory Europe) Day : In This Great Hour Let Us Thank God

 

"Our rejoicing is sobered and subdued by a supreme consciousness of 
the terrible price we have paid to rid the world of Hitler and his evil band.
Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and heartache, which 
today abides in the homes of so many of our neighbors-neighbors whose most
 priceless possession has been rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty."
-President Harry Truman
 V-E Day Radio Address to the American people

V-E Day Headline News-The Philadelphia Inquirer

(Tuesday Morning May 8, 1945)

Thank God:

Out of hearts full of rejoicing, 

there pours today this fervent prayer

Thank God the war in Europe is ended,  

our arms have triumphed,

the Nazi abomination has been crushed.

Here is the glorious news we have been longing for.

Let us receive it exultantly, but prayerfully.

Brave men have died to give us this day;

many others may yet die before our other war is won.

Let us not forget them, or their deeds, 

or the things they fought and died for.

Let us not forget the heavy tasks still ahead

 in carrying the war against Japan

to a victorious conclusion.

And let us not fail, in our relief and joy

 over the collapse of Hitlerism,

to offer to Divine Providence

our humble thanksgivings.

Thanks be to God!

"In This Great Hour Let Us Thank God!"
Front Page Editorial
The Philadelphia Inquirer
(May 8, 1945)