South Surrey resident Miriam Zwaan-Van Veen will be alone when she visits the White Rock cenotaph today (Friday, Aug. 15).

Unlike years gone by, when she was one of the organizers of the August 15 Foundation, there will be no event held to mark the end of the Second World War in Asia, and the freeing of Dutch civilians interned in Japanese camps in what was then the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

The last of these was held 10 years ago in 2015, when it was clear that the passing of years had dwindled to a shrinking few those who still remembered the significance of the anniversary of the day Japan announced its surrender to Allied forces (although V-J Day is formally celebrated on Sept. 2 when the surrender documents were signed on board the American battleship USS Missouri).

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