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HAPPY HIROSHIMA DAY!
My Fetid Brain ^ | August 6, 2010 | Shameless Vanity

Posted on 08/06/2010 6:55:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets

On December 7, 1941 my father was asleep in his barracks, his National Guard active duty commitment almost finished, he looked forward to returning to civilian life. Events that morning in Haiwaii dramatically changed his prospects.

If not for the events of August 6, 1945 in Japan the chances that he would ever be returned to civilian life would have decreased significantly. Even had he survived the War, the chances that he would have returned when he did, pursue the career he did and met my mother and married her in 1948 and had a son in 1950 would have been effectively zero.

It took a thousand miracles, a million inprobable coincidences, a billion happenstances for me to come into existance. Of all these odd events, no single event stands out like Hiroshima. Without it, I almost certainly would not be here today. The same is true for most of the people living in the United States today.


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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

No more Hiroshimas?

Easy. No more Pearl Harbors.


21 posted on 08/06/2010 8:41:21 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (I can see November from my house.)
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To: Gaffer

“I remember as a very young toddler getting packages from my dad in someplace called Aniwetok”

You might mean Eniwetok. Major Marine battle there and Kwajalein. Feb ‘44 I believe.


22 posted on 08/06/2010 8:47:17 AM PDT by Holen1
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Some songs for the occasion:
23 posted on 08/06/2010 8:49:37 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator

Wow, that drug addled brain wrote those words? Is Ozzy conservative???? That’s not a lefty position:

If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace
Then thank God for the bomb

Sounds like something I’d say..


24 posted on 08/06/2010 9:46:28 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Captain Kirk

I don’t believe that this is true. The Japanese surrender was unconditional.


25 posted on 08/06/2010 11:19:39 AM PDT by billakay
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To: billakay
No it wasn't. The Japanese insisted on the condition of keeping the emperor and, after much cabinet debate, Truman agreed. A surrender would not have occured, at least at that time, had not Truman agreed. Truman could have had the same deal earlier (and avoided the needless INTENTIONAL mass death of babies, little out ladies, and Japanese Christians) had he pursued this earlier.
26 posted on 08/06/2010 12:11:11 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
My father was in the 20th Armored Division, which in August, 1945, had returned from Europe and was on a thirty-day furlough prior to shipping out to the Far East. The 20th was scheduled to be in the first wave of the invasion of Japan and was therefore expecting 100% casualties. Without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I never would have come along four years later.
27 posted on 08/06/2010 2:59:19 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God is, and (2) God is good?)
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To: Holen1

Also very near the site of some pretty serious H-bomb testing after the war.


28 posted on 08/06/2010 4:51:09 PM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: Holen1

BTW, I’ve been to Kwaj twice...there and Roi Namur also...went touring around some of the remaining bunkers there. They really got blasted.


29 posted on 08/06/2010 4:52:44 PM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: Captain Kirk
I think you give too much single-minded emphasis to the Japanese power structure at that time in its history. The military (Army), the Navy (somewhat) were at odds with its political segment - to the point of near rebellion.

You can argue whether the insistence of keeping an emporer and accepting that condition made it unnecessary to bomb them was the key, but I contend that the national psyche of war and dominance that overly influenced the population could only be subjugated one way, and that was total defeat - the best and most expedient way at that time was the A-bomb.

30 posted on 08/06/2010 5:00:47 PM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: Gaffer

I disagree. You are forgetting that Japan (far more than Iraq, for example) had a recent quasi-Democratic condition of free elections. The imperial elite had been thoroughly discredited even before the bomb and Japan was beaten. This is why the Japanese were sending out peace feelers! It was not necessary for us to violate the ancient rules of war by a TERRORISTIC tactic of INTENTIONAL killing thousands of babies (both in the womb and in their cribs) as well as destroy the heart of Japanese Christianity. If that Japanese had done that to our babies and little old ladies, there would have been no question that they would have been executed for war crimes.


31 posted on 08/06/2010 9:47:07 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Gaffer

I meant to say they had a tradition not condition.


32 posted on 08/06/2010 9:49:00 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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