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Nagasaki remembers its atomic fate
AP ^

Posted on 08/08/2005 8:43:37 PM PDT by soundandvision

NAGASAKI, Japan (AP) -- A siren wailed and a bronze bell rang out through the air Tuesday as Nagasaki marked the exact moment 60 years ago that an American airplane appeared in its skies and dropped the plutonium bomb "Fat Man," killing some 80,000 people and sealing Japan's defeat in World War II.

About 6,000 people, including hundreds of aging bomb survivors, crowded into Nagasaki's Peace Memorial Park, just a few hundred meters (yards) from the center of the blast, for a solemn remembrance and moment of silence.

When the silence ended, Nagasaki Mayor Iccho Itoh had some angry words for the leaders of the nuclear powers, and especially the United States.

"To the citizens of the United States of America: We understand your anger and anxiety over the memories of the horror of the 9-11 terrorist attacks," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Japan; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anniversary; nagasaki; wwii
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator

To: pcottraux

Welcome to FR. I checked his page to see if he'd been banned yet, but he's working on it.
Duh is where he belongs.


22 posted on 08/08/2005 9:42:05 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: pcottraux

see post 20.


23 posted on 08/08/2005 9:42:05 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: Evil Evildoers of Evil
I seem to recall both were military targets. They weren't attacking Fresno, they were attacking the equivalent of Beals AFB and surrounding areas. They also took out Mazda's plant.
25 posted on 08/08/2005 9:43:59 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Evil Evildoers of Evil

Ah....you've really outted yourself now.....


26 posted on 08/08/2005 9:44:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: pcottraux

That's because we damned near missed. American's hate inaccuracy.


27 posted on 08/08/2005 9:44:40 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: goodnesswins

Gay troll gets...nuked. ;o)


28 posted on 08/08/2005 9:45:10 PM PDT by TheBigB (I would like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.)
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To: COEXERJ145

Interesting....I did NOT know THAT....learn so much here at FR.....THANKS.


29 posted on 08/08/2005 9:45:32 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: goodnesswins

Did he/she say something in #24?


30 posted on 08/08/2005 9:46:05 PM PDT by pcottraux
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To: pcottraux

Yes.....can't repeat it.....


31 posted on 08/08/2005 9:46:39 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: goodnesswins

Boy, those mods are fast. I had time to refresh the page once, see the profanity in his new post 24 and then BAM, gone a few seconds later. Truly impressive. :)


32 posted on 08/08/2005 9:47:22 PM PDT by agrace (Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me if you know so much. Job 38:4)
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To: goodnesswins

Is he/she/it gone now?


33 posted on 08/08/2005 9:47:46 PM PDT by pcottraux
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To: soundandvision

**killing some 80,000 people ***

Has everyone forgotten that after two A-bombs we went back to conventional bombing raids and killed thousands before the surrender?
What gets their panties in a bunch is we used ONE A-bomb on each city. Had we mounted a 100 plane raid on Hiro and Naga and killed as many as we did nothing would be said about it today.


34 posted on 08/08/2005 9:48:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
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To: Evil Evildoers of Evil

Hmmm, wonder what I missed?


35 posted on 08/08/2005 9:48:41 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Tom Tancredo- The Republican Party's Very Own Cynthia McKinney.)
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To: pcottraux

He/she dropped the F-bomb. Probably tripped an alarm with that one. :)


36 posted on 08/08/2005 9:48:53 PM PDT by agrace (Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me if you know so much. Job 38:4)
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To: pcottraux

I'm sure "he/she/it" is gone now.....probably to be re-incarnated under some other name, at another time.


37 posted on 08/08/2005 9:49:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Our military......the world's HEROES!)
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To: soundandvision

Better a couple of nukes than even a few days of incendiary raids.


38 posted on 08/08/2005 9:52:52 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the"and Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: goodnesswins

Dirty and vile. Why do they do things like that?

Even his screen name was a lame Al Franken book title rip-off.


39 posted on 08/08/2005 9:53:57 PM PDT by pcottraux
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To: soundandvision

We will never forget Bataan, Mayor. And we can relate that to Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot.


40 posted on 08/08/2005 9:54:32 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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