surrender-v. 1. to yield to the possession or power of. 2. to give oneself up. 3. to abandon or relinquish.
On May 14, 1945, the defeated Nazi General Jodl put his signature on a piece of paper indicating SURRENDER.
On Palm Sunday, 1865, General Robert E. Lee met General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of the McClean house at Appomattox Court House, Virginia signaling the SURRENDER of the attempt of the Southern States to create a separate nation.
In Tokyo Bay, on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship, USS Missouri, Japan officially SURRENDERed to the Allied forces.
In the Summer of 1977, at a beachfront chapel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a 7-year-old, Brian Gregg SURRENDERed the control of his destiny to Jesus. Although, on a daily basis, he continues to attempt coups to retake control, the grace offered him at the original SURRENDER urges him to be recaptured.
"Unconditional SURRENDER is an accomplished fact."-Dwight Eisenhower
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