Tom Ferebee
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
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...
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
Enola Gay
by OMD
Enola Gay...
You should have stayed at home yesterday
Ah ha words can't describe...
The feeling and the way you lied
These games you play...
They're gonna end it more than tears someday
Ah ha Enola Gay...
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
It's 8:15...
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio,
conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay...
Is mother proud of little boy today?
Ah ha this kiss you give...
It's never ever gonna fade away
Enola Gay...
It shouldn't ever have to end this way
Ah ha Enola Gay...
It shouldn't fade in our dreams away
It's 8:15...
And that's the time that it's always been
We got your message on the radio,
conditions normal and you're coming home
Enola Gay...
Is mother proud of little boy today?
Ah ha this kiss you give...
It's never ever gonna fade away
Cool song but I don't agree with it's sentiments.
My dad was in the Navy in the Pacific during WWII and chances are good I might not be here if it wasn't for the atomic bomb.
Hey Japan, when you spend most of the thirties raping and ravaging the world, someday someone might just show up with a bigger stick. When the bully gets knocked in the head, why should we feel sorry for him? The lesson is, don't pick a fight and you won't get punched in the face
Casualty avoidance is often cited for dropping the atomic bombs. People extrapolate from 48,000 American and 230,000 Japanese losses at Okinawa to a half million American and millions of Japanese casualties for the mainland invasion. The estimate could have been vastly understated because Japan, at 374,000 mountainous square miles, mathematically enables over 500 defensive redoubts comparable to that general Ushijima used to inflict most Okinawa losses. The War Faction adopted the motto of “100 million Japanese deaths” in planning the final mainland battles. Besides kamikazes, redeployed Kwantung divisions, and bamboo spears for civilians, the allies faced biological warfare. Occupation searchers uncovered large stockpiles of viruses, spirochetes, and fungus spores throughout rural Japan. One delivery plan encouraged Japanese to infect themselves and then surrender.
I have not seen mentioned the critical role kokaitai played in surrender. Any prominent Japanese lived out this spiritual combination of Emperor, people, land, ancestral spirits, government, and Shinto religion. Hirohito decided in January 1944 to appoint a Peace Faction, but he and his advisors debated twenty months through continuous defeats and 1.3 million Japanese deaths before the bombs removed the “final battles” argument, allowing the War Faction to relent, Hirohito to assume his new roll, and no one to lose face. They remained within the fabric of Japanese of all eras who had sacrificed themselves for Emperor and Empire. Kokaitai is too compelling, oppressive and fulfilling for Westerners to imagine the agony of conscience these men confronted juxtaposed to meetings in a burning Tokyo.
Colonel Ferebee is a great American, and he has no reason to feel any remorse. He was instrumental in ending a war. If there had been an invasion of Japan many American lives would have been lost.
All the men who served on the Enola Gay and Bock's Car are heroes in every sense of the word.
Neither show was negative about America's decision to drop the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Both shows were produced by the BBC!
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