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Elderly survivors, children and dignitaries bowed their heads at the city's Peace Park near ``ground zero'' for a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. -- the moment when a U.S. bomber dropped the world's second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945.

Any "moments of silence" for Pearl Harbor, The Rape of Nanking, the Treatment of POWs or the medical experimentation on the Chinese?

2 posted on 08/09/2006 5:58:44 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)

"Any "moments of silence" for Pearl Harbor, The Rape of Nanking, the Treatment of POWs or the medical experimentation on the Chinese?"

Oh, please! None of those things ever happened! I mean, if they did, they'd be covered in Japanese history books, right??

7 posted on 08/09/2006 6:02:09 AM PDT by LIConFem (Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")

The 2 articles I listed in my comment (sorry, I thought they'd link automagically) deal w/ the Japanese PM's annual visits to the Yasukuni war shrine. Really pisses of China & Korea when he does that.

10 posted on 08/09/2006 6:04:13 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy (Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a b!tch. The gun went off. I don't know why.)

I'll never forget on the 50th anniversary of the dropping of the Hiroshima bomb, one of the networks was interviewing Asians who had lived under the Japanese rule, and asked one elderly Korean woman, "did you agree with dropping the second bomb on Nagasaki?"

She asked, "How many bombs did they have?"

The reporter said, "Two, but were making more."

She said "They should have dropped all of them."

Any "moments of silence" for Pearl Harbor, The Rape of Nanking, the Treatment of POWs or the medical experimentation on the Chinese?

No, the pity party is only for anti-American acts...

23 posted on 08/09/2006 6:54:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Al Gore - the original "Millions Could Die" kind of guy....)

Any "moments of silence" for Pearl Harbor, The Rape of Nanking, the Treatment of POWs or the medical experimentation on the Chinese?

No, the pity party is only for themselves... there's no sympathy for crimes committed against Americans. Never has been...

24 posted on 08/09/2006 6:56:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (Al Gore - the original "Millions Could Die" kind of guy....)

Let's have a moment of silence for Sharon Tate, who was discovered on the 9th after being murdered by Charlie Manson; Nixon resigned on this day. August 9th has been one strange day....

I know, it's my birthday.

26 posted on 08/09/2006 7:00:45 AM PDT by Loud Mime (An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)