Martin Knapp wrote:
 
>My real reservation about the social - and I put this forward very
>tentatively and IMHO, not wishing to offend anyone - is this. Was it
>in the best of taste to use World War II as a theme for a social
>event, especially just next to the Hiroshima anniversary?
 
Since you brought it up first...
That depends on why you are celebrating.
I see no problem. People celebrated when the war was over back in 1945.
Apparently there was nothing wrong with that.
If we fail to remember history, or people
attempt to rewrite it we indeed are doomed to let it happen again.
I celebrate the end of the war.
For if it had not ended when it did, my Dad would have been shipped the
next day to the orient. His stuff was already loaded on the ship.
Fortunately, the ship got rerouted the next day!
 
Elbert