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Paul Tibbets Jr., who flew plane that dropped first atomic bomb, dies at 92
Columbus Dispatch ^
| Thursday, November 1, 2007 10:29 AM
Posted on 11/01/2007 8:43:44 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: snippy_about_it
It’s sad how fast the WWII generation is dying. I did meet General Tibbets’ grandson about 10-15 years ago. Last I heard he was following in his grandfather’s footsteps and had worked his way up to squadron commander in the Air Force.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
11/01/2007 1:47:19 PM PDT
by
FredHead47
(KIMI = World Champion 2007)
To: Cali Redneck
I wonder if Leslie Groves could have passed a physical at that time ;)He doesn't look anything like Paul Newman (who portrayed Groves in 'Fatman and Little Boy').
To: dfwgator
I worked 3 years in Richland, WA. There are pictures of General Groves all over town. Eastside is a whole lot different than Seattle/Olympia...
To: snippy_about_it
I’ll have to check that out. I’m kinda partial to Seabees, but that’s just a family tradition.
To: SevenofNine
What’s cold about honoring his mother?
To: Cali Redneck
LOL. Funny you should say that. I’ve ALWAYS been partial to the Navy. Yet I married a wonderful ground pounder.
My mother was in the Navy, father was in the Army, brother and sister in the AF.
I am married to an Army guy. I love ‘em all but have a special place in my heart for the Navy.
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posted on
11/01/2007 2:51:34 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul. WWPD (what would Patton do))
To: dfwgator
Alec Baldwin didn’t look at all like Jimmy Doolittle in that stupid Pearl Harbor flick either.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
My mother and her siblings were fortunate. The way that poor family lived reminded me of how they lived, in a cave shelter dug out of volcanic sand by her grandfather, during the war. Afterwards, their neighborhood had survived the firebombing relatively intact and they were able to just move back. A lot of families did not have that luxury and it doesn’t surprise me that some may have taken longer, if ever, to bounce back.
What happened to Masako was pretty typical how certain social strata were treated. I don’t think that if she came from a ‘good’, ie, middle-class and/or ethnically pure, family she would not have had to work in a factory at her age. Having known plenty of ladies like her, she must have been a lovely girl and a real survivor.
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posted on
11/01/2007 4:17:00 PM PDT
by
tanuki
(u)
To: snippy_about_it
Paul Tibbets was a great man. Thank you sir, for your patriotism. Rest in peace Paul Tibbets.
To: Let's Roll
Wow! Thanks! I needed that.:D
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posted on
11/01/2007 4:50:56 PM PDT
by
tanuki
(u)
Rest in peace, Paul Tibbets.
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posted on
11/01/2007 5:10:05 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
( I want Duncan Hunter to be the next President of the USA. .I will vote for him.)
To: snippy_about_it
RIP Col Tibbets. You did your duty magnificently. You are a hero.
To: snippy_about_it
Thanks,for helping alot of young men get the chance to go home and grow old!
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posted on
11/01/2007 5:28:22 PM PDT
by
bonehead4freedom
(The real way to stop crime is to hug a thug! More midnight basketball!)
To: Stonewall Jackson
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posted on
11/01/2007 5:30:30 PM PDT
by
SLB
(Wyoming's Alan Simpson on the Washington press - "all you get is controversy, crap and confusion")
To: IamConservative
I think this might be appropriate at this time.
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
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posted on
11/01/2007 5:35:11 PM PDT
by
dearolddad
(Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
To: snippy_about_it
I don't like the bomb, and I wish it did not happen. But of course it had to happen eventually once it was there. And the use of it did save the lives of Americans and many more Japanese.. looking 20-20 in the rear view mirror
But the difference between US and most of the rest of the world, when we win we do not demolish the people, we resurrect them.
And I just hope that that counts for something someday, say if a hildabest gets into office and the nation fractures apart
To: snippy_about_it
It sure looks good closeup. We go to the National Air and Space Museum-Steven F. Udvar-Hazy center at least a couple times a year. It is right next to Dulles airport. Admission is free but they knick you for $12.00 per vehicle for parking. I could spend every day there.
To: tanuki
Masako was tough and could stare me down in a staredown, even moving away on the streetcar.
She dated our neighborhood policeman but they never married. The policeman died of oldtimers last year. I think he was born in the 30's. His son in in real estate and is fun to talk to via email. I found the connection through a retired salesman for International Paper who was donating time to the Buddhist Temple in the area.
I don't know what happened to her after we left but another Japanese maid we knew about followed the family to the US and was adopted.
To: abb; All
RIP, Paul Tibbets, Jr. - and thank you!
The Mansions of the Lord Click the picture for music
To fallen soldiers let us sing Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing Our broken brothers let us bring To the Mansions of the Lord No more bleeding, no more fight No prayers pleading through the night Just divine embrace, eternal light To the Mansions of the Lord. Where no mothers cry and no children weep We will stand and guard though the angels sleep Through the ages safely keep The Mansions of the Lord. |
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posted on
11/01/2007 6:48:40 PM PDT
by
StarCMC
(http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/school-of-the-counterpropagandist/)
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