Some thoughts on the eve of VE Day- 75 years ago today on May 7, 1945 my late beloved father was liberated by American soldiers in Lebenau , Germany from a death march that had started 4 weeks earlier at Buchenwald concentration camp. May the 7th was the last day of World War II in Europe with the German surrender effective at midnight. May the 8th was then declared VE Day (Victory in Europe Day) by the Allies. Out of some 1600 prisoners at the start of that death march, only 150 were still alive when liberation came . The SS guards had shot or beaten to death any prisoners too weak to go on. My Dad weighed 85 pounds and had typhus when he was liberated but he had survived. On the eve of VE Day and as the world battles this horrible pandemic, let us all recall, honor and be again inspired by the bravery and sacrifices of those who joined together in the military and on the home front in World War II to fight and prevail over the Nazi menace.