Happy Anniversary tomorrow!

[SuperScout]

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.

[DeadlyDaring]

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]

[Packo]

to remember the bomb and this date....it was my birthday!

Born on Bomb-Day...

Pack

[DMZ-LT]

Happy Birthday , Tom

[1CAVCCO15MED]

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.

[SuperScout]

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.

[reconeil]

To-sort-of mimick SS, "Happy (BOTH) B'Days!".
Still,...which: "B'Day" are we talking about"? Joyous Heroshima Day or Nagasaki Day??

Regardless, if the nuclear attacks on The Murderous Imperial Jap Butchers of that time
saved ONLY one American or Allied Life (either civilian or military) then,..................
such was UNARGUABLY the wisest & very best thing to do.
No ifs, ands or buts,...nor ACLU Phony or Hypocrite types either.

Besides,...why all the stupidly wasted crocodile tears over what then needed atomically
doing, anyway? Hell, LeMay's: "Fire Bombings" by Incendiaries of Tokyo alone likely
dispatched about TWICE as many Unconscionably Merciless Japanese Racist Killers***,.....
to their just rewards. Plus, no doubt saved COUNTLESS of American & Allied Lives to-boot.

Neil

***"Racist Killers": At that time in Oriental Asia the only people perceived worthy of
very life itself amongst the Yellow Races,...HAD TO BE Japanese Yellow. NO others.
All other Yellows & Colors were considered lower than dog feces,...and treated accordingly.
Thus, NEVER believe any revised history here and/or what normally taught in Japanese
Schools on the subject or matter. No matter what anti-Americans babble differently,....
America & Allies were, are and will always be THE GOOD GUYS.

[revwardoc]

I was watching a Japanese comedian on Comedy Central one day. She talked about how American talk of having it tough when they were young; "You say to your children, when I was your age I had to, how you say, walk 5 miles to school, uphill, both ways, in a snowstorm. My parents say to me, 'When we were your age we had 2 atomic bombs dropped on us'. How can I top that?"

[reconeil]

Even that Japanese Commedian knows full well that NO American Parents NOR kiddies
themselves ever liked travelling long distances or trudging through snow to school.

Plus, same comedian must also know that most all Gloriously Victorious Imperial Japanese
Parents of that time pretty-much forced such inevitable destruction on themselves and
their children. No one else. Can't murder most everyone around within striking distance,
and cavalierly think can get away with such...and not somehow PAY QUITE SEVERELY.

Still, the Japanese Comedian did raise a quite valid point.
Plain old snow coming down on one sure-as-hell must be much better for children than
radiation dust & particles coming down,...while happily skipping-along on way to school.

Whatever, maybe "He" should double-check that out with The Hiroshima & Nagasaki Board
of Eds,...if MOST BENIGN & LIFE SAVING method of: "Pay-Back" still bothers "Him"?
What-the-hell & why not? Might be some mathematicians on such Education Boards whom
can explain that what could have been MANY MILLIONS (just like their Asian Victims) of
Japanese People lost to a Land Invasion,...actually turned out being only in THE THOUSANDS.

Whatever, MILLIONS or THOUSANDS of enemy deaths never bothered me in the slightest,...
even about 60 years ago.

Neil

[Gimpy]

Originally Posted by Packo

to remember the bomb and this date....it was my birthday!

Born on Bomb-Day...

Pack

Happy Belated Birthday my dear Southern Brother!

Here's hoping you have many, many more.

Gimp