Hiroshima Plus 63 [Happy Hiroshima Day]

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and the beginning of the end of World War 2. As is usually the case every year we have the stories of those who attack the incident as a ‘war crime’. These historical revisionists miss (or ignore) the fact that they are looking back with hindsight and applying modern attitudes to historical times.

My Mother was an 11 Year old child, remembered seeing, as she described it, sixty-three years later: flashing sun from her hometown of Fukuoka, Japan - it was the dropping of the second Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. My Mother remembered the air-raids and bombings, and she holds no anger or malice towards the Americans because she still says to this day that the action the Americans took saved lives and that the Japanese would have never given up. I thank your Father for his service to this country. My Late Father, was an American and served in the United States Army, it was his birthday today, Happy Birthday Daddy./Just Asking - seoul62.........

I had a professor in college who was born in Germany shortly after the war ended. He once said to the class "I'm glad you Americans bombed the hell out of us, I would have hated growing up under Hitler.".

And happy birthday to your dad from me as well.

You provided a list of names. But nowhere in your list do you provide any quotes where these men stated that the A-bomb drops on Japan were a war crime. Well, I will give you this - By being a turd in the punchbowl you have made this thread interesting. This is why I like Free Republic, because for every 100 intelligent (a.k.a. non-liberal) members there is only one of you. You might as well argue with yourself in the closet.

What do you think it means when Admiral Leahy called it a barbarous weapon? when he said he had not been trained to make war in this fashion? When he said that the point of the exercise was to kill women and children?

What do you think it means when Admiral Nimitz disclosed that the Joint Chiefs had no part in the decision?

What do you think it means when the Under-Secretary of the Navy contends that the bomb is contrary to America’s understanding of itself as humanitarian and a champion of fair play?

What do you think it meant that Admiral Strauss and others urged a demonstration in an unpopulated area?

What do you think it means when the chief of naval operations says he doesn’t want any part of it?

What do you think it means when Gen. Spaatz insisted on a written order to go ahead with the Nagasaki bombing — and Genn. Handy, in giving him that order called himself a fall guy?

You are playing at sophistry, as if Gen. Spaatz said something like “Col. Tibbets, we have a spectacular war crime we’d like to have committed. Are you interested?” — and then Tibbets (in your cloudcuckooland version of how the world works, says: “Sure General; I’d love to. Wait’ll the boys hear about this!”

That’s not how war crimes get committed. That’s not how the Jews were murdered in Europe. People about to do dirty work are damn careful not to call it by its right name. They are guilty all the same. Some of them — not enough — got hanged all the same. Even if they got a nice medal and a handshake from the boss to help sell the thing as a proud success.

We can’t discuss this anymore because you and I are from two different worlds. I advise you not to sling around terms like liberal or conservative because it’s clear your understanding is so debauched and your mind so darkened that you’ve lost all contact with what they mean.

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