Posted on 08/06/2008 7:08:42 AM PDT by PurpleMan
This week marks the 63rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the beginning of the end of World War 2. As is usually the case every year we have the stories of those who attack the incident as a ‘war crime’. These historical revisionists miss (or ignore) the fact that they are looking back with hindsight and applying modern attitudes to historical times.
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My Dad too. He was one of the first into Japan.
That's one more reason why Hussein Obama can not be elected President.
And thank you all the scientists, engineers, and supporting workers at all levels, both military and civilian, who made the Manhattan Project the success that it was, and who gave us the bomb before our enemies got it.
Little Boy and Fat Man probably saved the lives of tens of millions of Japanese.
You know you’re a Moonbat if you attend a “Die In” on August 6th. I’m sure Howie carr will steal that line.
What was the one, something like “representing the sins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
And what were some of them wearing? Potato sacks?
The lesson of Okinawa was that Japanese civilians would also join in the mass suicide an invasion would prompt.
Although it was the right decision then and looking back. It still was the correct one to make. I have no problem with that decision, I would have made the same one as Truman did. Absolutely it saved countless amount of American lives, and saved even futher destruction of their county. This is a date that should be remembered, absolutely.
However, a tremendous amount of civilians were killed in the initial blast but from the fall out as well. I don’t think that having such a “cavalier and jovial” attitude towards this day is a very respectfull one. Considering...
Where and what is that pic? Thanks.
Thank God FDR kicked the feckless Wallace to the curb and replaced him with Harry Truman.
WHEN THE ATOM BOMB FELL
(Davis, Taylor)
Oh, it went up so loud it divided up the clouds,
And the houses did vanish away.
And a great a ball of light filled the Japanese with fright.
They must have thought it was their judgment day.
Smoke and fire it did flow through the land of Tokyo;
There was brimstone and dust everywhere.
When it all cleared away there the cruel Japs did lay:
The answer to our fighting boys’ prayers,
Yes, Lord, the answer to our fighting boys’ prayers.
There was no atheist in a foxhole,
And men who never prayed before
Lifted tired and bloodshot eyes to heaven
And begged the Lord to end that awful war.
They told Him of their homes and loved ones,
They told Him that they’d like to be there.
I believe the bomb that struck Hiroshima
Was the answer to our fighting boys’ prayers.
Oh, it went up so loud it divided up the clouds,
And the houses did vanish away.
And a great a ball of light filled the Japanese with fright.
They must have thought it was their judgment day.
Smoke and fire it did flow through the land of Tokyo;
There was brimstone and dust everywhere.
When it all cleared away there the cruel Japs did lay:
The answer to our fighting boys’ prayers,
Yes, Lord, the answer to our fighting boys’ prayers.
Recorded by Karl & Harty
Columbia 36 982-4
1946
"Don't start what you don't want finished", or some such thing, was generally what he said.
You know, I do my best not to even glance at them (or the freaks out there every Monday morning)...they don't deserve it.
“If they do not now accept our terms they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth....”
There is no way on God’s green earth that ol’ Big-Ears NObama would ever utter such a statement to any enemies of the US.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
USS Arizona.
ATOMIC POWER
(Fred Kirby)
Oh, this world is at a tremble with its strength and mighty power.
They’re sending up to heaven to get the brimstone fire.
Take warning my dear brother, be careful how you plan,
You’re working with the power of God’s own holy hand.
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God,
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God.
You remember two great cities in a distant foreign land
When scorched from the face of earth the power of Japan.
Be careful my dear brother, don’t take away the joy,
But use it for the good of man and never to destroy
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God,
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God.
Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid a big price for their sins
When scorched from the face of earth, their battles could not win.
But on that day of judgment when comes a greater power,
We will not know the minute and we’ll not know the hour.
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God,
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God.
Recorded by Fred kirby, Rex Allen, the Buchanan Brothers, and others, 1946
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