[freerepublic_or_die]

I view these images and all I can see are sunken battleships, black-palled skies, a fiery inferno of dying, dead sailors, boys dying in a flash entombed in listing ships, kamikazes, heads chopped off, civilians butchered, raped, decapitated, experimened on, tortured, starved/marched to death, used for bayonet practice and more, too much, much more......

These images won't evince the slightest bit of emotionalism out of me.

War is hell. The Japs gave us war, we gave 'em hell.

[Old Mountain man]

They sowed the wind and reaped the whirlwind. My dad was a combat engineer training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands when the bomb dropped. The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only two things I am grateful to a democrat for. Thanks again, Harry. Thanks again General Tibbits. My dad got to live, marry my mother and live a good and productive life instead of getting killed putting up a bridge in the invasion.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Am I supposed to feel sorry for the Japs in these photos, considering all the atrocities that they had done during the war and before, in China?

[stylin19a]

More people died during the battle for Okinawa than both bombs combined.

The bombs made sure there were no more Okinawas....I'll take that trade-off any day.

[LiberConservative]

I think the fact that we are still debating this event proves “Reverend” Wright wrong. We did indeed bat an eye and debate and argue this decision before we made it. We made the right one. Nuking Japan saved lives on both sides. Period.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think if all wars were ended with exclamations marks (WWII) instead of ellipses (post WWII), we wouldn’t have to fight so many of them.

[tanuki]

It is good to record events as much as is possible, but there doesn’t seem to me any absolute moral lesson we can gather from these pictures apart from ‘war is a bad thing.’

Is it a necessary thing? Well, ask the Chinese, Koreans and other East Asians that Japan was waging an unprovoked imperial war against. While the fall of China to communism (putting aside the question of whether we could have stopped that or not) put a pall upon the results of the Pacific conflict, nonetheless the US achieved its primary goal of stopping Japanese aggression. And that is as worthy an achievement as any conflict has achieved.

[richiep]

The West needs to view these pictures and determine if they want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

[Fiji Hill]

ATOMIC POWER
(Fred Kirby)

Oh this world is at a tremble with its strength and mighty power
There sending up to heaven to get the brimstone fire
Take warning my dear brother, be careful how you plan
You’re working with the power of God’s own holy hand

Refrain:
Atomic power, atomic power
Was given by the mighty hand of God
Atomic power, atomic power
It was given by the mighty hand of God

You remember two great cities in a distant foreign land
When scorched from the face of earth the power of Japan
Be careful my dear brother, don’t take away the joy
But use it for the good of man and never to destroy

Refrain

Hiroshima, Nagasaki paid a big price for their sins
When scorched from the face of earth their battles could not win
But on that day of judgment when comes a greater power
We will not know the minute and we’ll not know the hour

Refrain

Recorded by Fred Kirby, Rex Allen, the Buchanan Brothers, and others, 1946

[Churchillspirit]

Wonder how far away from ground zero these photos were taken.

As part of civil defense training in the UK we were shown film of the bombs exploding.

Flesh as well as clothing was ripped from bodies. These corpses looked very "fleshy"

[Fiji Hill]

ATOMIC COCKTAIL
(Slim Gaillard)

It’s the drink that you don’t pour
Now when you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.

Splashes ice all around the place
When you see it coming, grab your suitcase
It’ll send you through the sky like airmail-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail.

You push a button, turn a dial
Your work is done for miles and miles
When it hits-it’s bound to shake ‘cause it feels just like an earthquake.

That’s the drink that you don’t pour
When you take one sip you won’t need anymore
You’re small as a beetle or big as a whale-BOOM-Atomic Cocktail

Recorded by the Slim Gaillard Quartet
Atomic Records #215, 1946

[TribalPrincess2U]

Too frickin bad. They started it. We ended it. Death happens in wars.

Take note Iran!

[Las Vegas Ron]

See my tag line

[Onelifetogive]

Each body in those pictures represents about 10 Japanese (and maybe 5 Americans) that didn’t die from an American invasion of Japan...

[dfwgator]

The bomb ended up saving even more Japanese lives than American lives.

[ricks_place]

Imperial Japan was especially brutal to the Chinese people who they considered subhuman committing rape, murder, medical experiments, and more. Imperial Japan also murdered European Civilians, ate captured US Airmen, starved and murdered POWs, raped captured women, murdered Filipinos, and so forth as a matter of policy!

Japan earned Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[palmerizedCaddis]

Look at things this way, the commie scum wanted us to win WWII. We were their allies. The peace movement of the later years was to convince us that we were better RED THAN DEAD.

What I see is an American president who had the cahoonas to do what was politically expedient and also what was best for the military. By then WWII was beginning to be very unpopular with the folks here at home. Truman saw the political need to end the war quickly and did. Although very unpopular, he instituted the Marshall plan, made McArthur governor general of a defeated Japan. And set the WEST on a course that finally forty years later led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

By the way a close family member was on the way to invade the japanese homeland when the fires of hell rained down on Hiroshoma and Nagasaki.

Immolate the commie scum in our own country.

Caddis

[anton]

Those are some inspiring photos. Recalling a time when this country could take a hard line with its enemies and not pretend to have adopted all the displaced citizens.

If we had any nationalistic spirit left, that is what Iran would like like right now.

[G Larry]

Let’s see, do the critics prefer pictures of:

500 lb. bomb victims,
Napalm victims, or
People cut in half by 30 cal. rounds?

Was America obligated to conduct a “nice war” in response to Pearl Harbor?

[Grunthor]

QUICK! Someone send these pix to Tehran!

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

My husband's grandfather, at this very moment, was being blown to smithereens.