[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Thank God for the atomic bomb.

[skeeter]

It was a brutal war of annihilation not of our choosing.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Enjoy and share with your elected member of the Ruling Class:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpOcZVnBrc

[Gaffer]

I remember as a very young toddler getting packages from my dad in someplace called Aniwetok (sp) with local native carved boats etc. I also remember seeing a lot black small hockey puck sized disks on chains. I found out later these were radiation exposure disks. He died in 1971 from a myriad of heart problems and other conditions that never were really adequately explained. I eventually figured out he was part of the H-bomb testing......

[Bosco]

My great uncle was on the U.S.S. Maryland on 12/7/41.

We did the right thing with ending the war as soon as possible.

[Redleg Duke]

After a couple of years on the North Atlantic Convoy run in a can and having two shot out from under him in the Med, my Dad spent the remainder of the war on Guam...however, who knows where he would have been if President Truman hadn't had the guts and foresight to pull the trigger on Japan!

All these years later, it was still the right call for all involved. I don't give a damn what the limp-wristed, panty-waisted pacifists have to say.

[dfwgator]

Thank God for the Bomb - Ozzy Osbourne

Like moths to a flame
Is man never gonna change?
Time’s seen untold aggression
And infliction of pain
If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace

Then thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb

Nuke ya, nuke ya

War is just another game
Tailor made for the insane
But make a threat of their annihilation
And nobody wants to play
If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace

Then thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb

Nuke ya, nuke ya

Today was tomorrow, yesterday
It’s funny how time can slip away
The face of the doomsday clock
Has launched a thousand wars
As we reach the final hour
Time is the only foe we have

When war is obsolete
I’ll thank God for war’s defeat
But any talk about hell freezing over
Is all said with tongue in cheek
Until the day the war drums beat no more

I thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb
Thank God for the bomb

Nuke ya, nuke ya

[BenLurkin]

They asked for it.
They got it.

[Mr. Blonde]

Just learned that in anticipation of invading Japan the government had 500,000 purple hearts minted. We are still using that supply today.

I am one of many who would most likely not be here if not for the bomb.

[kidd]

A necesary evil. And a far better choice than not using it. And in the end, a bomb that saved a lot of lives. I’ll be p!ssed off at the Japanese for starting the whole mess to begin with and their willingness to continue to fight a war that they’d clearly lost. But I’m not going to be ‘happy’ about it, nor will I thank God for the bomb.

[No Truce With Kings]

No more Hiroshimas?

Easy. No more Pearl Harbors.

[Fiji Hill]

Some songs for the occasion:

• When the Atom Bomb Fell--Karl & Harty, 1945

• Atomic Power--Red Foley, 1946

• Atomic Cocktail--The Slim Gaillard Trio, 1945

• Talking Atomic Blues--Ozie Waters, 1950

• Atom and Evil--The Golden Gate Quartet, 1946

• End of War Blues--Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (featuring Charles Brown), 1945

[Hebrews 11:6]

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.