![]() ![]() ![]() Ed DiPrete tried to transform it into Governor’s Bay Day, and former Barrington Rep. Japanese officials said Victory Day was harming trade between the two nations, and a local Chamber of Commerce official called the holiday “embarrassing.” But by the mid-1980s – with Japan’s economic might growing – there was a lively debate about whether it should be scrapped. The holiday was established here in 1948, three years after World War II ended. 14 deserves special attention for its interplay of state, local, national, and even international politics,” Len Travers writes in the “Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days.” Indeed, as far back as 1957 The New York Times reported that what it called “V-J Day” was “always a big legal holiday in Rhode Island.” “The tenacity of Rhode Island in celebrating Aug. Rhode Island has been on its own since 1975, when Arkansas dropped the holiday – which it had already rechristened as “World War II Memorial Day” – and reportedly gave state workers their birthdays off as a consolation. (And yes, the official legal name of the holiday in Rhode Island is Victory Day, not V-J Day.) Monday is the 67th annual Victory Day in Rhode Island, keeping the state as the only one to still observe a legal holiday that marks Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II. (WPRI) – Like Del’s, Victory Day is a uniquely Rhode Island tradition. ![]()
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