I encountered this site while searching a bit of info on Brig.Gen.Paul Tibbets and have joined your group especially to post a comment on this great hero of the US armed forces of WW2.
It was very pleasing to read that there are many still who can appreciate the heroism and dedication of their fighting men from over 66 years ago and who take great pride in their achievements.
I’m an Australian 73 years young who has made an amateur but highly detailed study of some aspects of WW2 in the western Pacific. The deployment of nuclear weapons against Japan is one of those aspects as part of the events that led up to and followed Japan’s surrender.
It is most regrettable that the average person of today has no appreciation of how the people of the world felt in those days, especially those nations inevitably and unavoidably involved.
It is a vital aspect of integrity in history that we put ourselves in their shoes and learn what they felt. Failure to do so denigrates heroism, dedication to duty, love of family and country and the bravery of those who fought and died that we may reflect at our leisure on the momentous events that they dealt with.
I congratulate you all on your sincerity and honest appreciation of ordinary men and women who managed to navigate through extraordinary times and triumphed.
They deserve our undying thanks and respect.
I might add as an afterthought that I hold your president Harry Truman also in the highest respect. A more worthy, hard-working, honest, no-nonsense man never graced the White House.
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Last night I watched Above and Beyond, a movie I remember my father watching when I was little. Although I've seen it once or twice in my adult life, for whatever reason, I wanted to see it again. Woke up this morning and still wanted to read/learn more about Paul Tibbets.
I came across your post from July and wanted to thank you for your thoughts and felt they deserved a BTTT. God bless you.