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To: Saint X

The one where Hiroshima and Nagasaki get the ever lovin’ hell nuked out of them.


5 posted on 12/07/2012 9:58:06 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Actually, “Midway” was the best, I think.


7 posted on 12/07/2012 9:58:42 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
If you've ever been to the atomic bomb museums at Hiroshima or Nagasaki, you'd be one sick puppy if you still felt that way. These were terrible calamities, undeserved by 99.9% of the victims.

Even if the first bomb might have been necessary to put a quick end to the war and save countless more lives, a sane person does not take delight in seeing the results of that destruction.

My father fought against the Japanese in World War II combat. He was up close and personal on a naval landing craft which brought supplies into the combat zones and took the dead and wounded out.

He could have chosen to hate the Japanese. Instead, during the brief few months when he served in the occupation after the war ended, he gained a deep respect for them,

21 posted on 12/07/2012 10:27:14 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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