By Sam Wroblewski 630wpro.com
Several generations of veterans gathered at Memorial Park in Pawtucket to remember the men and women who fought in World War Two as a part of the city’s annual Victory Day ceremony.
2015 marks the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender after two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; American Legion State Officer Jack Lucas says the number of vets who commemorate the holiday grows smaller every year.
“We look around the [memorial] and a few people are no longer with us; we all share that fate one way or another,” said Lucas.
Attendants helped hang a wreath from the memorial to honor both the living and dead for their service.
“Thank God […] we’re here to in a sense reward each other by serving each other, it’s all we can do,” Lucas continued.
Former head of the Rhode Island Department of Veteran Affairs Daniel Evangelista said the conflict of the Greatest Generation was supposed to be the war to end all wars; sadly he says, this was not the case.
“I think it is important we don’t lose sight of this so when we have to take on the new struggles that we will be prepared,” said Evangelista.
