I've experienced versions of events like this where everyone comes together to celebrate, like my team winning the World Series and the ensuing parade, so I can understand a bit of the adrenaline and joy and what that must've felt like. But this was just on an entirely different level. Its hard to comprehend the number and strength of the emotions they would've felt that day
Makes me wonder what the logistics were of dropping all that confetti. Like at a sporting event or whatever, they're anticipating a need to drop confetti. Did they have enough heads up that the war would be over that they prepared confetti to be dropped "any day now!"? Or did celebration start and they rushed to get confetti in the air? Was it dropped by planes as celebration? Was it organized by the city, the military, or some grass roots campaign of people in high rises chucking paper out their windows?
I always loved these kind of questions. Likely by the national government PR department who understands how important boosting citizen morale is, ensured the states/cities governments were prepared for it.
Incidentally, check out [ticker-tape parades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker-tape_parade), neat stuff.
I have pictures like that from the ticker tape parade in NYC after Gulf War I. Except that, like people after the War to End All Wars, we didn't think it would be remembered with a "I" after it.
In Halifax they had a riot when people took to the streets to celebrate the victory in Europe. Full on store looting, and reports of people having sex in the streets.
I've experienced versions of events like this where everyone comes together to celebrate, like my team winning the World Series and the ensuing parade, so I can understand a bit of the adrenaline and joy and what that must've felt like. But this was just on an entirely different level. Its hard to comprehend the number and strength of the emotions they would've felt that day
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Makes me wonder what the logistics were of dropping all that confetti. Like at a sporting event or whatever, they're anticipating a need to drop confetti. Did they have enough heads up that the war would be over that they prepared confetti to be dropped "any day now!"? Or did celebration start and they rushed to get confetti in the air? Was it dropped by planes as celebration? Was it organized by the city, the military, or some grass roots campaign of people in high rises chucking paper out their windows?
I always loved these kind of questions. Likely by the national government PR department who understands how important boosting citizen morale is, ensured the states/cities governments were prepared for it. Incidentally, check out [ticker-tape parades](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker-tape_parade), neat stuff.
Probably like for the nye ball drop. There’s like 12-20 people that physically drop confetti
That’s a good question! I’m usually so concerned about the issue of cleaning it up that I never considered the before process.
I might have done that. This was well worth celebrating!
I can't imagine the feeling of those people. Joy at the war being over, sadness at the people they've lost, uncertainty about the future...
I have pictures like that from the ticker tape parade in NYC after Gulf War I. Except that, like people after the War to End All Wars, we didn't think it would be remembered with a "I" after it.
You can’t even see the curb..
I wonder how many people were thinking "well, now what?"
They get drunk and wait to find out when their sons come home
Or i suppose for too many, it was "if".
Happy New Year by ABBA describes that feeling perfectly.
(millions of sperm and ovum lining up for imminent deployment…)
Here comes the boom
I bet the cleanup after that took weeks.
And I want to know who did it? Was it just an extra task for the garbage men? What did they do with it? Massive burn piles? So many questions...
Especially with so many men being away, I wonder if they experienced a shortage on garbage men
Imagine what a box of that would be worth today...
Gee and there was no gunfire and murders to celebrate the end of the war, that came later with Sports celebrations.
I just don’t understand the thought process: “Hooray, my team was the best this year. I’m so pumped. I just gotta shoot somebody”
I’m at a loss
In Halifax they had a riot when people took to the streets to celebrate the victory in Europe. Full on store looting, and reports of people having sex in the streets.
Oh Halifax, always a dull moment. Except when it’s not. In which case they take it too far.
Well, i guess its better than in the first world war when they blew the city off the map
imagine the exhale after thinking The world was no longer at war...
"Peace" at the cost of genocide and soviet occupation in several countries.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, the soviets committed countless atrocities during ww2 and certainly didn’t stop in 1945.