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Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

The Smithsonian's display of the Enola Gay bomber sidesteps any controversy over the atomic attacks on Japan. By Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin are co-authors of a forthcoming biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. This week, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum unveiled a fully restored, finely polished artifact of World War II — a Boeing B-29 "Superfortress." This particular airplane — the Enola Gay — is the centerpiece of the museum's sleek new $311-million annex. [snip] Of course there is, and the museum's brief label provides a...

Saturday, November 8, 2003 at 01:57 JST WASHINGTON The Smithsonian Institution has received a petition from a group of nearly 200 scholars, writers and others criticizing its plans to exhibit the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, without mentioning Japanese casualties, an institution official said Thursday. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which plans to put the completely reassembled Enola Gay on public display on Dec 15 when its new facility opens near Washington Dulles International Airport, will announce its response to the petition Friday, the official said. The petition urges the...

When it comes to the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, the Smithsonian Institution seems able to do no right. In 1994, the museum enraged World War II veterans with a display that implied the United States has unjustly committed aggression against Japan.In August, the reassembled Enola Gay, named for command pilot Col. Paul Tibbets Jr.'s mother, was put on display near Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. This time, criticism came from scholars, writers and antiwar activists angered that the exhibit focuses on the B-29's technological advances...

Damned if you do ... and damned if you don't. Such must be the mood of weary resignation of the organisers of the latest attempt to exhibit the Enola Gay - the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan just over 58 years ago - in Washington. Back in the mid-1990s, the first display of one of the most significant aircraft in history fell foul of a bitter dispute about the venerable Smithsonian Institute's version of the events which led to the Enola Gay's fateful mission over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.Veterans' groups and conservative politicians were...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — A 21-year-old sailor remained hospitalized Sunday evening after being shot as he walked in an entertainment district street around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric S. Heinz, a preventive medicine corpsman at Iwakuni Marine Corps Air Station’s Branch Medical Clinic, was in stable condition Sunday evening, said Marine Capt. Stewart Upton, base spokesman. Sought for questioning in connection with the shooting was a 5-foot-4 man between ages 25 and 30, said a Hiroshima Prefectural Police spokesman. The man spoke Japanese and at the time of the shooting drove a two- or three-year-old black Nissan...

Sunday October 26, 4:32 PM US Marine shot, seriously injured in Hiroshima TOKYO (AFP) - A 21-year-old American Marine from a western Japan base was shot and seriously injured by an unidentified man in a car in Hiroshima on Sunday, police said. "He was shot in the lower back from behind and seriously injured," a spokesman at Hiroshima Higashi Police Station said. The victim, only identified as a sergeant at Iwakuni Base, some 700 kilometres (435 miles) west of Tokyo, was undergoing surgery to remove the bullet at a Hiroshima hospital, he said. The wound is not life-threatening, the police...

HIROSHIMA -- A low-flying U.S. military plane apparently caused an earthquake gauge installed at a local government office to register one on the Japanese seismic scale, officials said. Registration of seismic scales due to such flights has never been reported in Japan. Hiwa Municipal Government officials in northeastern Hiroshima Prefecture said that the seismic intensity of one, the lowest in the scale, was registered shortly after 12 noon on Oct. 24 last year. In the case of an earthquake, gauges set at several local government offices normally detect the tremor simultaneously, but only the one installed at the Hiwa office...

<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- It carried the most destructive weapon of World War II and now the Enola Gay, the aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, is set to go on display at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.</p>

Recently we had to go back and visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the A-bombs. Or the effects thereof. On Aug 6th 1945 Hiroshima was bombed with a uranium load. On Aug 9th 1945 Nagasaki was bombed with a plutonium load. The total number killed was 210,000 and another 130,000 within 5 years from after effects. 340,000 attributed to 2 nuclear bombs. Of course America is blamed exclusively because we “dropped the big one” It is not the duty of our President, then Harry Truman to minimize the deaths of our enemies by sacrificing more Americans. Conventional fighting on Okinawa cost...

Earlier this summer I had the honor of participating in a two-week study tour of Japan as the guest of the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs. Our 15-person delegation consisted of social studies educators, university professors and education officials from the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. The purpose of this program, conducted in cooperation with the National Council for the Social Studies and its counterparts in the other participating nations, is to allow participating fellows to become better acquainted with contemporary Japanese society in order to enhance global perspectives and understanding. Without a doubt, the...

<p>Fifty-eight years ago this morning, an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Boy" dropped from an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. After a brief descent, the bomb detonated above Hiroshima and vaporized thousands of Japanese civilians. Thousands more died from burns or radiation poisoning. Thousands more fell ill in the years that followed. Three days later over Nagasaki, an atomic bomb fell again.</p>

Hiroshima's mayor lashed out at the United States' nuclear weapons policy during ceremonies marking the 58th anniversary of the city's atomic bombing, which caused the deaths of over 230,000 people.Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said the United States worshipped nuclear weapons as "God" and blamed it for jeopardising the global nuclear non-proliferation regime."The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the central international agreement guiding the elimination of nuclear weapons, is on the verge of collapse," Akiba said Wednesday in an address to some 40,000 people."The chief cause is US nuclear policy that, by openly declaring the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear first strike and...

<p>The mayor of Hiroshima criticized U.S. officials on Wednesday for pursuing new nuclear weapons technology, as he marked the 58th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.</p> <p>Tadatoshi Akiba said Washington's apparent worship of "nuclear weapons as God" was threatening world peace.</p>

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. God Bless America...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. Welcome to "Warrior Wednesday" Where the Freeper Foxhole introduces...

As Aug. 6 approaches each year, I cannot help wondering how my best friend perished in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. Possibly, like many other children, he was burned to death under a collapsed school, where I found the scattered, burned bones of children a few days after the bombing. He was just one of millions of people who had been driven into an impossible situation, with no choice but to die in a war that Japan started. The Hiroshima bombing was a tragedy in the final chapter of the war. I have been asking if it could...

It was the afternoon of August 5, 1945. To a group of six hundred army officers assigned to the Hiroshima garrison, Professor Yoshitaka Mimura of Hiroshima Bunri University, a theoretical physicist, was explaining the scientific possibilities of new weapons which might reverse the tide of war. Japan had little Navy or Air Force left. Within months a massive invasion of the home islands seemed likely. “Could you tell us, sir”, a young lieutenant colonel asked, “what an atomic bomb is? Is there any possibility that the bomb will be deployed by the end of this war?” Mimura chalked a rough...

Tomorrow will mark the anniversary of one of the most morally contentious events of the 20th century, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. And after 58 years, there's an emerging consensus: we Americans have blood on our hands. There has been a chorus here and abroad that the U.S. has little moral standing on the issue of weapons of mass destruction because we were the first to use the atomic bomb. As Nelson Mandela said of Americans in a speech on Jan. 31, "Because they decided to kill innocent people in Japan, who are still suffering from that, who are they...

Saturday, August 2, 2003 -- A series of events throughout the region next week will mark the 58th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Events will start at 8 a.m. Wednesday with a service at the Leveret (MA) Peace Pagoda. That afternoon, a peace walk will start, continuing for four days, weaving together the week's events. On Wednesday, walkers will start at the Peace Pagoda at 3 p.m. and arrive at 5:30 p.m. at the Montague Grange, where a potluck dinner will welcome the walkers. Those present are encouraged to share music, art and poetry. The evening...

<p>Aug. 6 marks the 58th anniversary of the destruction by an atomic bomb of Hiroshima, a target selected because it was an industrial city. Some 80,000 Japanese were killed in the attack, and another 60,000 died of radiation wounds over the next 40 years.</p>