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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You helped rescue a good friend of mine’s father.
Thanks, sixty three years after the fact.
Hey, isn’t that font Times New Roman? Get Buckhead on this right away! I ain’t buy it.
Thank you. I thought it was at Pearl Harbor but didn’t know what ship.
Is that why it took TWO BOMBS separated by days to make them finally give up?
My dad had survived bombing missions in Europe and had volunteered to go to the Pacific. He was already doing missions over Japan from Okinawa when the bomb dropped. For an invasion he would have been doing round the clock bombing missions over Japan and the likelihood of surviving that would have pretty low. So some civilians in that fanatic regime died to end a war they started and supported to the death; our fathers and their subsequent generations survived. That’s the price Japan paid for their fanatic cruelty — too bad.
Happy Hiroshima Day! The bombing of Hiroshima saved many, many American lives. Many Japanese lives as well.
Looking for the website that reveals the American conservatives who would have died if we hadn’t dropped the bomb.
Crap! Embargos are part of the accepted diplomatic response to states that do things in violation of international standards and laws. You can’t view the total of WWII from just an American perspective about when and why they attacked. The Japanese had already been at war and invading/killing innocent civilians for years prior to our entry. The embargo was an attempt to force the Japanese to back off of their war of expansion and they chose not to cease and desist. Again, F them very much; they chose not to back off from their war of expansion.
You mean when the "bomb fell on Pearl Harbor"? /Obama
(Now, you KNOW that if McCain or a Republican said that, the fit would have hit the shan!)
If your alive because they died, I’d say there’s lot to be happy about.
Besides, “Happy Hiroshima Day” besides being just rhyming words, it was an itsy-bitsy protest to all of those knuckleheads who use this day to throw blood on the Enola Gay, protest outside the Pentagon (Why AREN’T they at DNC HQ? HST was a Democrat, right), and basically use this day as an opportunity to trash the memory of the people who made tough decision to save our country and the lives of our citizens.
Damn. I’m so fired up I’m gonna go have a steak for dinner. Maybe I FIRE up the grill and BURN it till it’s CHARRED or maybe instead I’ll just NUKE it in the microwave.
God spare us from humorless people
Is this the same Catholic Church that didn’t do anyhting about pedophile priests and supports illegals coming to this country?
With all due respect, this is an incredibly vulgar thing to say.
Using nuclear weapons to end WWII was necessary and proper.
But it is not something we should be "happy" about, nor is it an event we should celebrate.
And we should pray we never have to do the same thing, ever again.
While I was walking into work today I passed a couple of old hippy chick types carrying signs saying “Remember Hiroshima.”
To which I immediately countered with “Remember Pearl Harbor, The Bataan Death March, and The Rape of Nanking.”
The people who protest are ignorant or just plain stupid as they have no understanding as to why what was done had to be done. They cause me no pain as they simply are mental midgets who probably, if you boil it down to its core, are Moonbats and part of the blame/hate America crowd. I do not have to celebrate war deaths to show my disdain for them. I will condemn them and call them what they are...Ignorant, stupid left wing Moonbats who are traitors their country. I do not have to celebrate the fact 90,000 people died in a bomb blast in Hiroshima to know that.
Hey, just my two cents...
Well I’m happy and I’ll be damned to not admit it!
9-10 years ago, I snagged a few "cancelled" stamps from the nuke museum on the grounds of the U.S. Air Force base in Albuquerque, NM.
I have one of the stamps paired with a photo of my uncle... a Pearl Harbor survivor.
Does any one have an image of that proposed stamp? I tried to find one on the internet a few years ago, but was not successful.
An invasion would not have occured if we had let the Japanese know that they could emperor. Killing babies was not necessary.
Bulls***
Ask your mother why the largest Allied air raid of the war took place after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed.
I am always thankful that we dropped the 2 nukes on Japan and wish we could have done it sooner.
Thanks to all of those who developed and delivered the weapons, and saved many thousands of lives by ending a brutal, horrific war.
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