James Tibbets, son of Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., seen here, says Friday's visit to Hiroshima by U.S. Ambassador John Roos is an act of contrition that his late father would never have approved.
James Tibbets, son of Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., seen here, says Friday's visit to Hiroshima by U.S. Ambassador John Roos is an act of contrition that his late father would never have approved.
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.
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
Next up a shrine for Emperor Hirohito at Pearl Harbor overlooking the USS Arizona in the interests of diversity and tolerance.
Did the Japanese apologize for the slaughtering of civilians in Manila Phillipines? (when we were liberating that city)
In Nanking China?
They SLAUGHTERED children All OVER the pacific by bayoneting them, because they didn’t want to “waste” ammunition.
FU the Japanese. They are lucky we did’t drop the damn thing on top of the Imperial Palace!!
My Father would have likely been one of those sent in with any invasion force. I sometimes wonder if he would have survived an assault on Japan.
Thanks to men like Tibbets, my Father and thousands of other like him lived to go on with their lives and build their families.
It is very humbling.
Just one more stop on Obama’s apology tour. Whatta maroon!
I was impressed about the level of recognition for our sacrifice at Pearl Harbor, and really impressed at how automatic the response was from all hands without prompting.
That's his opinion. I look at it as our country honoring the deaths of our once enemy and now strongest ally for actions that were warranted in order to restore peace to this planet.
After all that we've been told about nuclear warfare, I find it ironic that both Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been able to rise above the nuclear rubble and build a sprawling metropolis while our own major cities such as Detroit have decayed into rubble........
Brig Gen Paul W. Tibbets
obama
no contest. Tibbets wins.
In the poker game that was WWII, the Japs thought they had an unbeatable hand of four Aces in forcing us to invade the home islands.
However, as only poker players know, you can never be sure your hand is good enough. And shortly thereafter we laid down a straight flush by hiding mushroom cloud up our sleeve.
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Yesterday, we presented a resolution honoring the award of a very belated bronze star to an infantryman who had been in the battle of Okinawa (Ryukyu) The allies suffered more than 50,000 casualties in that battle and Japan saw more than 100,000. Some have estimated that more than a million people would have been killed if the allies had continued their plans to invade Japan in order to finaly end the war. Instead, the bombs were dropped weeks after. Just gives a bit of perspective.
We didn’t start the fight: We just ended it.
That’s ‘cause we’re AMERICANS!!!!
My grandfather helped to liberate the Philippines from the Japanese and was deployed there when the bombs fell. My mother, my aunts, myself, my cousins, my kids might never have been born had the war continued.
My brother-in-law (Navy Lt-cmdr) was stationed in Japan for a decade and married a Japanese woman. My father-in-law’s first interaction with her father was as follows - they naturally determined that they served on opposite sides of the war (my FIL was on his way over to Japan on a Navy ship when the bombs were dropped and his ship turned around), and were both very appreciative of the fact that rather than having been fighting enemies, they were now family.
The bombs saved lives, generations even, on both sides.
The people that have a problem with this, can go %$*& their selves. And then read some actual history.
Thank you Mr Tibbets and company.
My brother was KIA on Okinawa. I was about tenth in line for new combat gear at a replacement center on the island of Leyte when a Lt. came out and told us to go back to our tents- the fighting was over. My memory was/is that everyone at that repel depot felt a great relief because we had been told the invasion of Japan was very close and was going to be very costly. Even though I also thanked God for events ,I wished the bomb had been dropped a few months sooner to end the Okinawa battle.
WE SENT YOU 2 AND YOU LOST BOTH OF THEM, YOU CAN'T HAVE THIS ONE!
He is right. The strange thing is, we now have the right (Pat Buchanan) and the left (all of them) beasically acting like we should apologize for the War. It is madness- and suicidal.