{"id":34116,"date":"2025-08-15T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34116"},"modified":"2025-08-15T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T20:53:44","slug":"vj-day-80-commemorated-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34116","title":{"rendered":"VJ Day 80 Commemorated in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025081511.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n2025 marks the 80th anniversaries of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) on 8 May and VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) on 15 August. A VJ Day 80 flag flew at the Royal British Legion in Abingdon to mark today\u2019s occasion.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025081509.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAt noon, members of the Legion, dignitaries, and the public gathered at the War Memorial for a ceremony. The Town Crier opened proceedings, followed by a member of the Royal British Legion who read the Exhortation, <em>&#8216;They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old&#8230;&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two minutes\u2019 silence was then observed.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025081506.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe first wreaths at the memorial were laid by the Mayor of Abingdon and the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025081504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nfollowed by a veteran and representatives from other organisations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025081512.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis evening, between 6:30 and 7:00 pm, the bells of St Nicolas Church rang out as part of the anniversary commemorations. (Video of bell ringing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/G14FbGzUOL0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/G14FbGzUOL0<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 marks the 80th anniversaries of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) on 8 May and VJ Day (Victory over Japan Day) on 15 August. A VJ Day 80 flag flew at the Royal British Legion in Abingdon to mark today\u2019s occasion. At noon, members of the Legion, dignitaries, and the public gathered at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}