Victory over Japan Day (V-J Day): Eighty years on

Today marks the eightieth anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ-Day). On this day, it seems appropriate to remember the epitaph that is carved on the memorial of the 2nd British Division in the cemetery at Kohima:

When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.

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John Maxwell Edmonds (21st January 1875 – 18th March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and is credited with writing this epitaph in 1918. It was inspired by an epigram written by the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos to the fallen at the Battle of Thermopylae:

Tell them in Lacedaemon, passer-by
That here, obedient to their word, we lie.