VJ Day Photojournalism Open Thread: Surrender, Then and Now

The Empire of Japan surrendered on Aug. 14-15, 1945, ending World War II. The formal ceremony took place aboard the battleship Missouri on Sept. 2. That was then:

Shigemitsu-signs-surrender

And this is now:

obama-bow-to-saudi-king

Makes you proud to be a post-American, doesn’t it?

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