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#1
08-06-2008, 02:39 PM
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Happy Anniversary tomorrow!
Sixty-three years ago, the first atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, an event that foreshadowed the end of WWII. Still not convinced, Nagasaki became the next target, and soon afterwards, the Japanese government acceded to our demands for unconditional surrender.
Personally, I still give thanks to all the brave men and women of the Manhattan Project, the US armed forces, and especially those that sacrificed so much to us some much. Liberty. Freedom. May God continue to bless America, and may America return to blessing God.
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#2
08-06-2008, 04:22 PM
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"Thank God For Atom The Bomb"
Paul Fussell, "Thank God For Atom The Bomb" in Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (New York: Summit Books, 1988). First published as "Hiroshima: A Soldier's View," New Republic (August 1981)
(Page 13) Many years ago in New York I saw on the side of a bus a whiskey ad I've remembered all this time. It's been for me a model of the short poem, and indeed I've come upon few short poems subsequently that exhibited more poetic talent. The ad consisted of two eleven-syllable lines of "verse," thus: In life, experience is the great teacher. In Scotch, Teacher's is the great experience. Continue more reading at [media]http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfib/courses/Fussell.pdf[/media]
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08-07-2008, 04:02 AM
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Easy for me
to remember the bomb and this date....it was my birthday!
Born on Bomb-Day... Pack
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08-07-2008, 06:10 AM
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doolittle raids resulted in many more casualties than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined
66,000 died in the Hiroshima attack and 39,000 died in Nagaski. But in comparison these raids pale in comparison to what occured after the Doolittle raids on Japan. The Japanese in retaliation for the Chinese aiding the downed flyers shot, bayonetted, raped, drowned, burned alive and beheaded an estimated 200,000 Chinese civilians and 50,000 Chinese POWs In every village the downed airmen travled through the population was massacred and the village razed to the ground.
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08-07-2008, 07:10 AM
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Pack - happiest of B'Days! We kinda like the 'bomb' your mom dropped on the world that day!!
If x number of people died as a result of the bombs over Hirosama and Nagasaki, it ended the war much quicker, and at the savings of thousands of American lives. War's hell, but the loss thereof is unthinkable.
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#7
08-07-2008, 12:13 PM
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Hope you had a GREAT ONE!
Quote:
Happy Belated Birthday my dear Southern Brother! Here's hoping you have many, many more. Gimp
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#8
08-07-2008, 07:03 PM
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Happy Hiroshima Birthday, Tom. Now go out and get bombed. Just watch you don't fallout. LOL
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