V-J DAY: No, it has nothing to do with golfer Vijay Singh!
Somehow we forgot to mention this remarkable anniversary which
occurred on Aug. 15, 1945, the day of victory for the allied forces
over Japan in World War II.

Our thanks to Clayt Vecellio for bringing this omission to our
attention. And our thanks to all the World War II veterans who
brought peace to the world after this brutal clash of
civilizations.

Many younger people, we realize, know little if anything about
this anniversary and at least one did in fact think the reference
had to do with Vijay Singh.

Forgetting this date would be tantamount to a future writer of
RTS failing to mention the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, a day no
American will ever forget. So, our apologies to those who worked so
hard to make Aug. 15, 1945, a date that should be etched in our
memories.

Meanwhile, our Associated Press stylebook notes that V-J Day is
calculated both as Aug. 15, 1945, the day the fighting with Japan
ended, and Sept. 2, 1945, the day Japan officially surrendered.

SMALL WORLD: Era reporter Marcie Schellhammer and her family
discovered on a recent vacation at Disney World in Orlando, Fla.,
that it’s a small world after all – in more ways than one.

On the return trip, Marcie spied a very familiar object at a
security checkpoint at the Orlando Airport. The TSA agents had
chairs specially designed for children to use. As it turned out,
the wooden chairs decorated with zebras, giraffes, elephants and
the like were made by Briar Patch Wood Designs, formerly of
Bradford and currently of Limestone, N.Y.

And a TSA agent told Marcie that those chairs had taken quite a
beating at one of the nation’s busiest airports – and had never
broken.

Meanwhile, Marcie had also noticed that the souvenir cups for
sale at the Disney Resorts and theme parks had a familiar name on
the bottom – Whirley Industries Inc. of Warren, Pa. Those cups are
assembled by Futures Rehabilitation workers right here in
Bradford.

GATORS: Jody Jaros of Port Allegany responds to an RTS about
area football teams’ nicknames – “It is the Gators of Port
Allegany, not the Alligators. Enjoy your paper very much but had to
respond to this as I am also an alumni of PAHS.”