“Four years earlier”
Back in the ‘Better Red Than Dead” days the horrors and immorality of nuclear weapons were screamed from every cafeteria tabletop and slobbered over by every useful idiot on air or in print.
August 6th always brought the blonde bimbos chasing and collaring Colonel Paul Tibbets, commander of the Hiroshima mission. They would shove microphones in his face and demand breathlessly....
“Do you have any regrets on dropping the atom bomb and killing so many people?”
For many years, he would remain silent. Then, toward the end of his life he said in reply......
“Yes. My regret is that I did not have the opportunity to drop it four years earlier.”
Or words to that effect.
“Four years earlier”
Back in the ‘Better Red Than Dead” days the horrors and immorality of nuclear weapons were screamed from every cafeteria tabletop and slobbered over by every useful idiot on air or in print.
August 6th always brought the blonde bimbos chasing and collaring Colonel Paul Tibbets, commander of the Hiroshima mission. They would shove microphones in his face and demand breathlessly....
“Do you have any regrets on dropping the atom bomb and killing so many people?”
For many years, he would remain silent. Then, toward the end of his life he said in reply......
“Yes. My regret is that I did not have the opportunity to drop it four years earlier.”
Or words to that effect.
General Tibbets passed away in 2007. His wish was to be cremated, and his ashes scattered in the English Channel. His rationale was to avoid a burial and headstone to be vandalized by knuckleheads described above.
Tibbets was a true leader, an officer and a gentleman...and a great American hero.
Tibbetts never waivered nor did he have any long-term hatred of the Japanese. In his later years he drove a Toyota.