A Tale of Two Photos Captures Different Americas
By WARREN KOZAK, Special to the Sun | August 30, 2021
Two photographs, taken 76 years apart — within the lifetime of many — drive home the change our country has taken in that short span of time. First, the famous photo of the Japanese surrender on the deck of United States Ship Missouri on September 2, 1945. Then, the photograph of the catastrophic exit from the war in Afghanistan, where scores of human beings grasp a Air Force Globemaster as it races to escape Kabul.
Two wars. Two different endings. Two very different Americas.
In the older photo, a stern General Douglas MacArthur, orders the defeated Japanese officials to sign the surrender documents under the gaze of dozens of military officers. Then, 76 years later, it is the United States that is humiliated by the haphazard order of an American President. For those of us who grew up thinking that first photo exemplified who we are, the change is dizzying.
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