Posted on 05/26/2016 10:51:25 AM PDT by Starman417
Nearly 75 years ago, on a quiet Sunday morning at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time, 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service. You also sank or damaged three of our cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. You destroyed 188 U.S. aircraft, killed 2,403 Americans and wounded 1,178 others. Over the next seven hours there were also coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island.
And so, we beat the s- out of you.
-PJ
LOL, yeah I think works!
I took a friend to the Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport several years ago. While looking at the Enola Gay a woman near us mentioned to her friend how evil the plane was.
My friend immediately and loudly asked me the monthly casualty figures for the Kuantung Army in China at the time of the bombings. I said 250,000 killed per month. He then asked “so the bombs saved a lot of Japanese lives”? I said “millions of Japanese, millions of Chinese and other Asian, tens of thousands of Russian.” (I deliberately left out mentioning the projected US casualties from Olympic and Coronet since the twits wouldn’t have cared)
They both looked over at us in disgust, turned and stormed off. Three points to the good guys.
“And you should also thank us for blocking the Soviets from occupying Japan as well.”
If you had gotten the bomb first and used it on Los Angeles, would you be apologizing now?
I didn’t think so.
You started it, we finished it. Be glad we treated you as well as we did after you surrendered.
How about, “The future must not belong to leaders who want to build walls. The America I know is about knocking down walls.”
Regards,
My dad was a marine in the South Pacific. He told us that his unit was getting ready to gear up for the Japanese Island invasion. It would have been very bloody, but they would have gotten it done.
He also told us he belonged to one of the units that got caught up in the Bataan Death March. He missed it because of a paper work/administrative reassignment. He could type, and was held from his unit for a couple of weeks. Then they were captured. Yikes.
He told me all of this when I was a skull full of mush and was exploring the idea of “was the bomb dropped on Japan evil?”He definitely convinced me: NO. IT SAVED BOTH ALLIED AND JAPANESE LIVES.
I would add “Sorry for your bad luck”,
And even if they didn’t surrender that many would have died of starvation.
It was really the best of a whole list of bad choices.
Please 0bama, don’t bow down again. Maybe at the shoulders, with your eyes fixed on the PM, but not like you did before. Your mouth was parallel to his zipper.
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That might be the post of the day right there!
He should read the names of the 2,400 sailors, soldiers, and civilians killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and then walk away from the podium.
That's probably what he thinks he should say (if he could get away with it).
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