Posted on 08/06/2005 8:09:15 AM PDT by aShepard
As someone who had an opportunity immediately after the end of hostilities in the Jap instigated war, Tokyo was indeed leveled by the fire bombing and the good citizens of Japan were living in the subway tunnels. They richly deserved the fate visited upon them.
Will it be as horrendous and terrifying as the mass graves discovered just two years ago in the deserts of Iraq?
On War Stories with Oliver North - FOX News will be showing "Bataan". It's on at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT
Imagine the horrors of our soldiers who died inside of the ships half-sunken in Pearl Harbor.
There were two (?) men who tapped and tapped, trying to get help, while trapped inside of the hull of one of the ships. I believe that they lived for a week; and the guards helplessly listened to them for the week before they died. We were unable to reach them.
WE DIDN'T START THAT WAR. We were innocent.
WE FINISHED THAT WAR.
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When are we going to have the videos of those inside the collapsing World Trade Center? Or the ones as they hit the ground after jumping?
Sounds like a certain country learned a lesson they STILL haven't forgoten.
Maybe Hiroshima was conceived on December 7, 1941, and was delivered on August 6, 1945.
From your lips to the ears of Osama Bin Ladin and Al Zarcowardly.
I saw this movie in the service in the early '70's while in the process to become an officer that would use weapons with nuclear warheads. It is brutal, all war is brutal. It was shown to us cadets in the context of nuclear effects AND in the context of moral nuclear responsibility in that we should not take the loosening the "Devils Weapon" lightly.
However, what annoys me, is there were no Japanese Imperial Navy photographers photo-archiving the destruction of Pearl Harbor. The only movies we have are our own. In short, the Japanese of the time did not worry their conscience with the moral consequences of the methods that the Empire of Japan used in domination of the Pacific. The Americans, however, pondered the atom-bomb from an even higher authority than the President. In the end it was the best choice of only bad options.
The images in the film are gruesome, but then so are the screams of a wounded young American soldier being run over by a German tank as his guts are squished out by the tank treads. War really is hell and we should hate those to death who practice it for conquest.
The official line is that Mao drove out the Japanese and rid the country (or so they thought) of war and violence and hence is a national hero...
No mention in there of any bombs...if so, they are put as astericks in a footnote somewhere in the back of the book.
AKA Mao led a glorious revolution that took the country back and brought peace and autonomy back to China! (Thats all you need to know) Most people don't even recognize that it was the US that defeated Japan in WWII. That recognition would have TONS of implications, including recognizing that the KMT (at the time) did more to defend against the Japanese than the CCP ever thought of....
That means, gasp, that China would have to openly acknowledge that the US was THEIR saving grace and that Mao wasn't all that...
It ain't gonna happen.
Hopefully they will also show footage from the burned sailors at Pearl Harbor, Nanking victims, Baataan death march victims, and on and on and on.....
I just wish we would have been able to nuke them sooner,it would have saved even more American lives.
Thanks to the aircrews that dropped the bombs on Japan, you saved many lives.
I don't know about anything with the scouts, all I've seen is an ad for the show saying North's going to be talking to survivors of Bataan.
excellent article!
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