Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Son of Pilot Who Dropped A-Bomb Opposes Plan to Send U.S. Delegation to Hiroshima Ceremony
Fox News ^ | August 4, 2010 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 08/04/2010 12:45:04 PM PDT by Stoat

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-79 next last
To: Gay State Conservative

I visited the museum in Nagasaki that depicts the damage done by the atom bomb. I did it out of interest not remorse or doing a victory lap. I was two years old when we bombed Nagasaki. My father and four of his brothers were in the military including places like Tarawa, Salerno, and Anzio. I am sure some of them would have been involved in any invasion of Japan. I have no problem with our use of the weapon, which cut short the war and saved lives and destruction on all sides.


21 posted on 08/04/2010 1:07:20 PM PDT by kabar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

“BTW, if you do it again, we’ll be back.”

Today, they’re too busy groping young women on their bullet trains/s;)


22 posted on 08/04/2010 1:08:01 PM PDT by Frank_2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Talisker

“ditto’s”-Couldn’t say it better


23 posted on 08/04/2010 1:08:24 PM PDT by captbarney
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

This is many things, and it’s a way for Obama to write himself into the history of WWII.

Have I said I hate Obama? I’m sure I must have.


24 posted on 08/04/2010 1:10:30 PM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

They can spit in our faces on so many other fronts and Americans just sit there and take it, so why not go after our war history, and war heroes?

Americans don’t care anymore, lefty. Go right ahead and apologize for defeating our enemies. It makes perfect nonsense.


25 posted on 08/04/2010 1:12:12 PM PDT by Boucheau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat
"Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us."
- Harry Truman, August 9, 1945.

Enough said.
26 posted on 08/04/2010 1:14:31 PM PDT by irishjuggler
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

The entire Tibbetts family is owed an apology for even considering an apology to the Japanese! Countless war crimes were committed by the japs in WW11! The bomb stopped it all and saved thousands or more lives. Paul Tibbetts was a hero for braving a plane with such a load and I’m sure suffered for years afterward grappling with such a responsibility.


27 posted on 08/04/2010 1:15:34 PM PDT by albie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat
I met Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets at a presentation/book signing held a few years back in Omaha, at the (then) SAC Museum.

He gave a brief presentation, then just talked a bit. It was very much like listening to stories your granddad would tell you, most not even having anything to do with "the bombing".

I still have the book he signed.

28 posted on 08/04/2010 1:16:22 PM PDT by China Clipper (My favorite animals usually are found next to the rice on my plate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

Hawaii has a huge Japanese population now.


29 posted on 08/04/2010 1:17:08 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: skimbell

I remember a teacher in elementary school who said when word got out to the ships that the bomb was dropped, the soldiers danced.


30 posted on 08/04/2010 1:18:43 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Unless the US Delegation is going to say, “We’re glad we nuked you guys”, it has no business being there.


31 posted on 08/04/2010 1:19:19 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Unless the US Delegation is going to say, “We’re glad we nuked you guys”, it has no business being there.


32 posted on 08/04/2010 1:19:28 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: archy; snippy_about_it; Calpernia; xzins; SandRat; Cannoneer; Ragtime Cowgirl; stockpirate; ...
Avenge December 7
33 posted on 08/04/2010 1:21:12 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gay State Conservative

Wife and I visited the Arizona Memorial, the Missouri and the submarine memorial last March.
I would estimate 80 percent of the tourists were young Japanese. They all stayed at one hotel (about a block away from the beach front) and moved by the bus loads, all together. A Japanese woman with a police whistle directed the bus parking and loading.


34 posted on 08/04/2010 1:21:28 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Stoat
to mark the 65th anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima

Thought experiment: Based on the conduct of the Japanese military in WWII and its run-up (Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Bataan, general POW and nurse treatment, etc.), if the Japanese High Command had been in possession of their own A-bomb, how long do you think they would have hesitated before using it against U.S. military and civilian personnel?

a) Five minutes.

b) Five seconds.

c) Please don't ask stupid questions.

35 posted on 08/04/2010 1:22:27 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Talisker
Paul Schalow, a professor of Japanese at Rutgers University ... speculated that Roos' visit could be a step toward positioning the U.S. to condemn any future use of atomic weapons, perhaps by North Korea.

"If we show some regret of our own use of the weapon, if it happens again, we're in a moral position to criticize," he said. "As of now, we're not in a position to denounce it."

When we issue an communique to the still-glowing pile of molten debris that was once North Korea, we'll look pretty silly if it includes a denunciation of the use of nuclear weaponry...

36 posted on 08/04/2010 1:28:20 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be a slave...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: albie

You are right about the countless Japanese atrocities, which have been white-washed in Japan.

You are wrong about “suffering” or “grappling” over what he did. Many times people attempted to shame him into apologizing for what he did. His response till the day he died was he would do the same exact thing without hesitation.


37 posted on 08/04/2010 1:32:07 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Of course it is a tacit apology. An apology for being America is in order for this administration by reason of slavery prior to 1865.


38 posted on 08/04/2010 1:33:53 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: China Clipper; Stoat; albie
I went to a book signing in Branson, MO

Tibbets, Ferebee and Van Kirk were there.

I thanked Tibbets for what they did. Very humbly he replied "we would like to think we made a difference".

39 posted on 08/04/2010 1:37:46 PM PDT by TYVets
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Stoat

Gen. Curtis LeMay’s firebombing killed a lot more Japanese than the nukes. They were too indoctrinated in the warrior cult to surrender then. My family is here today because of Tibbets. My Father-in-law was slated to be among the first troops to invade mainland Japan. Expected casualties 500,000=1,000,000


40 posted on 08/04/2010 1:48:19 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-79 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson