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This day in History: Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Happy Nagasaki Day!)
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| August 9, 2008
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Posted on 08/09/2008 3:50:28 AM PDT by abb
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Another great day in United States military history.
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posted on
08/09/2008 3:50:28 AM PDT
by
abb
To: indcons
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posted on
08/09/2008 3:50:46 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
These anniversaries should be noted in every public school and the deterrent effect of armed might should be taught over and over and over and over and over and over and over and . . .
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:09:48 AM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
To: abb
Thus ended WWII and alleviating the need to invade the island of Japan which would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.
GOOD JOB
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:10:45 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
To: abb
And if they didn’t surrender after Nagasaki... it meant that Olympic and Coronet were the next on the docket. The loss of life in an invasion of Japan, at that time, is mind-boggling.
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:13:00 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("Duck I says... ")
Nagasaki was the secondary target. Kokura was the primary target but the bomb could not be dropped even after three runs on the target due to cloud cover, smoke and haze preventing the sighting of the target by the bombardier, Kermit Beahan.
[back row (L-R)] Captain Beahan, Captain Van Pelt, Jr., First Lt. Albury, Second Lt. Olivi, Major Sweeney
Staff Sgt. Buckley, Master Sgt. Kuharek, Sgt. Gallagher, Staff Sgt. DeHart, Sgt. Spitzer
To: johnny7
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:17:12 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: Joe Boucher
Thus ended WWII and alleviating the need to invade the island of Japan which would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives. I've seen numerous interviews of men who were readying to invade the main island and they were overjoyed at the news. Prior to that, they ALL considered themselves as "dead men walking".
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:19:33 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(You can't "Tylenol" your way out of arthritis either but it sure as hell helps to relieve the pain.)
To: libertylover
My grandfather was on the Bunker Hill when it got kamikazee’d during Okinawa. Never had to do much to convince him the bomb was a good thing.
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:23:42 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: abb
It just makes me warm and fuzzy thinking about it!!! We did it... they deserved it... American and Japanese lives were spared... and the Japan of today would NEVER exist if we had not done it. I just wish we would do it today with iran.... hear me imanutjob??? I love it when we KILL our enemies in grand America style! Yeah baby!!!!
LLS
To: abb
“Another great day in United States military history.”
Absolutely true, but that “Happy Nagasaki day” jibe in the headline is childish.
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:34:05 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
To: abb
“Another great day in United States military history.”
Indeed. A good day to remember that our nuclear forces are essential and in need of modernization.
Nothing in history has been a force for peace to equal the nuclear weapon.
To: abb
Thanks again to the makers of the bomb .My dad was in California training for the invasion of mainland Japan when the bomb was dropped. Good chance I probably wouldn’t be writing this if it hadn’t happened !
“ Made in America, Tested in Japan !”
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:38:57 AM PDT
by
Renegade
(You go tell my buddies)
To: abb
“What’s up, Hiroshi? Let’s light this candle!”
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:39:21 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: libertylover
" ended WWII and alleviating the need to invade the island of Japan which would have cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.
I've seen numerous interviews of men who were readying to invade the main island and they were overjoyed at the news. Prior to that, they ALL considered themselves as "dead men walking"." My late father, at that time a Marine private who helped to take Okinawa, was one such man. He lived to the age of 77 instead of being killed in the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands.
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:47:20 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Oh dear, The Lord must have been watching over my Mother - She was an Eleven Year old young child, her hometown was Fukuoka, Japan. She remembers, still vividly and Sixty-Three Years later the flash of bright sunlight one morning, it was the second Atomic Bomb dropping of Nagasaki. Fate, brought her many years later to my Late Father, an American, who served proudly in the United States Army. My Mother still says to this day that the bomb saved alot of lives and that the Japanese would have never surrendered but to describe this event as Happy? I think the word: Happy would be appropriate when the Japanese unconditionally surrendered to General Douglas MacArthur./Just Asking - seoul62.......
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posted on
08/09/2008 4:54:12 AM PDT
by
seoul62
To: libertylover
My father considered every day of his life after d-day (Sept. 20?) as a gift from heaven. There turned out to be 60 years worth of days to be grateful for. He had done that beachhead thing three times and was already a fugitive from the law of averages. Also he was in an independent tank battalion, and they always got the dirty end of the stick.
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posted on
08/09/2008 5:10:45 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(A politician who thinks he is above the law is actually beneath contempt.)
To: TalBlack
Absolutely true, but that Happy Nagasaki day jibe in the headline is childish. Not really. It's quite on point - the day should be celebrated at least as prominently as Dec. 7. It caused WWII to come to an end.
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posted on
08/09/2008 5:17:19 AM PDT
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: abb
"The hills that surrounded the city did a better job of containing the destructive force, but the number killed is estimated at anywhere between 60,000 and 80,000 (exact figures are impossible, the blast having obliterated bodies and disintegrated records)." And of course, this is what the anti American- anti nuke crowd will be wailing over during all the tearful candlelight vigils held tonight.
What they can't seem to get through their heads is that had the war continued, 10 times that number would have been killed by the Japanese imperial army alone in their occupied zones.
To: Renegade
My dad had recovered from burns suffered in a crash in the CBI Campaign. He was sure that his number would be called again.
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