Posted on 08/06/2005 6:25:05 PM PDT by wagglebee
It is truly appalling that the left would ever try to make a hero feel guilty for serving his country.
As My old Pappy would say they "The Japenese" Asked us out to play on December 7
I've read a bunch of old newspapers from WW II and listened to old radio broadcasts and it's funny, there's not a word about how the Japanese were really "peace loving" people or any of the other crap we hear about Islam.
He and his crew saved countless American lives..many who are here now would not be if it were not for them..
They completed their mission at great personal cost and the event exacted a toll on the men who flew it..
God bless all who saved America from the Japs and the Germans...
And certain Muslims asked us out to play on September 11. They ain't seen nothin' yet.
American Hero Ping!
Even Nagasaki wasn't enough to get them to throw in the towel. The largest air raid of the war took place on 14 August 1945 and resistance even continued after the 15th. The Japanese were pretty dense.
The Germans and the Japanese were both working on the bomb. What on earth were they going to do with it if they achieved it first?
Payback for Pearl Harbor, Patback for the Bataan Death March, Payback for the Alled Prisoners Tortured, Beaten and Starved in Japanese POW Camps!!
P A Y B A C K
IS A BITCH!!
Yes it is!
I just got back from seeing a sneak preaview of "The Great Raid". Good movie. We need more like it to tell the stories of the heroes in the Pacific theater in WWII and remind us of why exactly it was right to nuke those bastards like we did.
Damn straight. Go see "The Great Raid" when it comes out.
Go see "The Great Raid" when it comes out.
I can't wait to see it. My daughter is going with me because most of my friends only like chick flicks. But I love movies that depict our troops in their true light-brave, courageous American Heroes!
It turned my stomach to see Colonel Tibbetts appear to get angry at the interviewer during one of the Hiroshima specials on the History Channel (or maybe Discovery Times Channel) today.
He angrily shot back at an unheard question, "You just can't understand that it saved more lives, American lives than it ever took of Japanese" or something to that effect. He said it with fire in his eyes and in such a way that it was clear he was pissed at the lefty doing the interview (i.e. he wasn't addressing the second-guessers at-large).
I just imagine that there was a string of questions about "conscience", "women and children", "100,000", etc. prior to the outburst. Whoever picked him for the job 60 years ago, damn sure picked the right guy.
That would be Uzal G. Ent
I went to see the Enola Gay when it was at the Smithsonian. The day I was there,the viewing area around the Enola Gay was crowded with Japanese. As we moved slowly toward the airplane, you could feel a lot of tension. When I was level with it, I burst into tears - not sad tears, but tears of joy for the bravery and stout hearts of the men who had "driven" that airplane and it's precious load to Hiroshima.
After the viewing, they had a short video of the remaining crew, each one telling about his experience. One of the crew - and I believe it was Col. Tom Ferebee - said that he had never, for one moment, regretted what he had done and if need be, he would do it all over again.
I left there so proud and so filled with awe for those men who served in WWII and ALL of our splendid military.
They also saved many Japanese lives, including civilians. The land of the kamikaze pilots was not going to go down easily.
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