Posted on 08/08/2005 5:08:48 PM PDT by RightWingReader
Every discussion of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be preceded by a showing of the film Tora, Tora, Tora and followed by detailed narratives of the Batan Death March and Jap prisons on the Philipines and the labor camps in Japan run by their industrial compex. There can be no question that Japan deserved the consequences of our best weapon to end the war. No real American should grieve over that event, not for a moment.
Skip the Tora x3 showing. But do show a Batan documentary as well as newsreel footage of the rape of Nanking. They had it coming and it prevented the neccessity of a invasion by US troops. Good enough for me.
I was born in 1954. But in August 1945 my dad was on a troop ship heading for Japan.
I believe that is is proper to feel grief over the Japanese civilians who died. I do believe the bombing was proper and ended the war poste haste. I have never regreted the event. I do regreat that the ravages of war are sometimes necessary.
Taking it to the enemy with full force is the best way to end hostilities quickly.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved American lives. If those events only saved only one U.S. life, the life of a citizen or a military member of the nation that was attacked in the first place, it was worth it.
Our citizens, our military members are not expendable. If someone attacks us, we're going to put them down.
Remember that folks who think the U.S. is a pushover.
I find it funny that the left is now bringing up the horror of WW2.
Was the dropping of THE BOMB correct?
How many were killed?
The Answer is how many lives were saved!
Sure innocent's were killed, but much less than would of happened if we stormed the beaches and continued to carpet bomb the Japanese cities!
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From what I've read, the bombs saved Japanese civilian lives too. The Tojo and his generals were willing to sacrifice all the civilians to avoid surrender.
Enola Gay? Not that there is anything wrong with that. Bashing not appropriate.
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I'd settle for a forced march through the "second half" of the D-Day Museum in New Orleans. When you leave that exhibit, you want to go nuke'em again, just to make sure they got the point.
Tomorrow is "Happy Nagasaki Day"!
I wouldn't be surpised. I'm sure it did.
I remember walking through the United Nations tour many years ago, and seeing all the exhibits they have about the horrible results of the nuking of Japan, and even though I was fairly young and not very politically astute, I was irritated by that display.
We shoulda bombed Berlin too..
Great point. The visual impression would be enough for most people!
I just remember the one display that told the story of a man on one of the south Pacific islands that was skinned alive... in front of his family... by the Japanese to serve as a warning to other islanders not to help the Americans. Nuking a couple of cities is nothing compared to the things these aminals did.
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