Modern history Germany-occupied [[puppet state]] and an Allies-friendly state in the South; Germany surrendered in May 1945. Following the [[atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki]], [[surrender of Japan|Japan surrendered]], marking the end of the war on September 2, 1945. [[File:Underwater Atomic Bomb Test At Bikini Atoll.webm|alt=Atomic Bomb underwater testing, 1946|left|thumb|Atomic Bomb Test, 1946. The use of Nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought WWII to an abrupt end.]] [[File:Roosevelt Pearl Harbor.ogg|thumb|U.S President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Roosevelt]] declaring war on the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese Empire]] in the aftermath of the [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor Attack]]. Captions provided]] [[File:Trumann hiroshima.ogg|thumb|Excerpt of [[President of
Too Close to Touch when we decided to look for people to start a band. We had a bunch of different people who would come and go, and Kenny and I would just carry on. Eventually we met Travis. We began playing with him consistently. Then, through mutual friends we got in contact with Keaton, who lived four hours away at the time... Then, Thomas actually sought us out. He was looking for bands in the area after just moving from Tucson, Az. to Kentucky, so we brought him up to Lexington one weekend to the studio to see what he had going on.