http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/current/news/stories/vjday.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
HONOLULU (Reuter) - Bill Clinton, the first U.S. president born after World World War II, leads veterans of that conflict Saturday in commemorating the victory that defined a generation and propelled America into the role of free world leader.
Clinton will spend VJ Day -- Victory over Japan Day -- in a non-stop series of solemn ceremonies and festive parades in Hawaii, the place where the United States was pulled into the world's bloodiest war in 1941 with a Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor.
When the U.S.-led allied coalition finally triumphed in the Pacific 50 years ago this week, a new era of prosperity and global leadership dawned for the United States -- the era into which Clinton was born on Aug. 19, 1946.
White House officials say Clinton wants to celebrate the progress and community spirit of the post-war era Saturday as well as commemorate the 1945 victory, which the president said Friday had ``truly saved the world.''
Clinton has been in Hawaii since Thursday for four days of celebrations, but Saturday is the actual 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender to supreme allied commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
The highlight of Clinton's participation is to be a speech Saturday at the Punchbowl, a military cemetery where thousands of U.S. servicemen killed in the Pacific are buried.
He was also to lay a wreath on the battleship Arizona, where many of the more than 1,000 servicemen who died in the Pearl Harbor attack are still entombed, and attend a parade of World War II veterans.
On Friday the president watched 7,000 active duty servicemen on parade at Wheeler Air Field in a spit-and-polish tribute to Pacific war veterans.
Addressing the crowd, Clinton recounted the numerous battles in the Pacific, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa -- and declared that ``the Americans who fought the Pacific War bestowed a glory upon our nation with acts of heroism that will never be surpassed.'' REUTER