Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Truman grandson visits Hiroshima A-bomb memorial
Associated Press ^ | August. 4, 2012 | MARI YAMAGUCHI

Posted on 08/04/2012 8:48:35 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

TOKYO (AP) -- A grandson of ex-U.S. President Harry Truman, who ordered the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, is in Hiroshima to attend a memorial service for the victims.

Clifton Truman Daniel visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Saturday and laid a wreath for the 140,000 people killed by the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing authorized by his grandfather.

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dancedajig; didavictorydance
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

1 posted on 08/04/2012 8:48:37 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
Daniel said in a statement that he decided to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki because he needed to know the consequences of his grandfather's decision as part of his own efforts to help achieve a nuclear-free world.

The invasion of Japan would have been the bloodiest fight in history. Even optimistic estimates placed the American toll at one million lives and likely over a million Japanese lives. Does that completely justify the use of nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I don't really know.

But as the son of a sailor on an LSM waiting in Okinawa for the invasion, had Truman not dropped the bomb, I probably would not have been born. So it is hard for me not to be grateful to Harry Truman.

2 posted on 08/04/2012 9:02:24 AM PDT by newheart (At what point does policy become treason?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

And I would suppose either before this or after he went and laid a wreath at the U.S.S Arizona memorial?


3 posted on 08/04/2012 9:03:57 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Mr. Truman should also place wreaths at the former sites of the many Japanese deathcamps that were strewn all over SE Asia.

And please Mr. Truman, while you are on your touchy-feely trip, don’t forget to visit the city of Nanking and learn how its citizens were subjected to the sword, shuffle and bayonet.

Long live Col. Tibbitts and the Enola Gay!


4 posted on 08/04/2012 9:04:06 AM PDT by 353FMG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: newheart

Where’s the guy who says, aww, not this Blank again???

And the point of this article is what? Apparently to send a liberal message. Look at this world, the grandson of the man who ordered the dropping of the A-bomb wants to know the consequences of that, and wants to work for a nuclear free world. Look at this world, the grandson of that man is a good liberal on the nuclear issue!

And we’re supposed to be awed about that. Okay...........................


5 posted on 08/04/2012 9:05:58 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Dilbert San Diego

Obviously, a very confused man.


6 posted on 08/04/2012 9:08:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (I didn't post this. Someone else did.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey Clifton you silly little boy the Japs asked us to dance we obliged them


7 posted on 08/04/2012 9:13:12 AM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: newheart

On V-E Day my Dad was part of the tip of the spear of Patton’s Third Army in Europe. His outfit was already re-equipping for the invasion of the Japan home islands when Truman dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. The war ended. I was born in 1948. No regrets about Truman’s action. The guilt tripping since then is appalling.

Have the Japanese ever floated a wreath at the Arizona Memorial? Well, have they?


8 posted on 08/04/2012 9:21:17 AM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: newheart

>>>But as the son of a sailor on an LSM waiting in Okinawa for the invasion, had Truman not dropped the bomb, I probably would not have been born. So it is hard for me not to be grateful to Harry Truman. >>>

Dropping the atomic bomb had to be the hardest decision any leader of any country ever had. Truman was right. In the end, while it destroyed many lives it put an end to WWII and saved more lives that it took.


9 posted on 08/04/2012 9:22:07 AM PDT by kitkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: kitkat

“That” should have been “Then.”


10 posted on 08/04/2012 9:23:10 AM PDT by kitkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: kitkat
The decision probably wasn't that hard. It was war time and at that time people wanted to win and end it.

The reason the target wasn’t Tokyo is because it had already been destroyed with fire bombing. More people were killed in Tokyo than Hiroshima.

11 posted on 08/04/2012 9:27:30 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
From another source: Soooo, he's little more than another Dem trying to rewrite history.

12 posted on 08/04/2012 9:27:30 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY
That's nice. Did the Japanese recently lay a wreath in Nanking, Bataan, Burma, and all the other atrocity hotspots they liked so much?

Piss be on them. My father would not have survived invading their ant hill to root them out. Nuking them was righteous.

13 posted on 08/04/2012 9:54:35 AM PDT by doorgunner69
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: newheart

Thank God for the bomb.


14 posted on 08/04/2012 9:56:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Free ThinkerNY

Why did he feel that it was necessary for him to do this? Daniel wasn’t even born yet when the bomb was dropped; but for those of us who were, it brought the war to an abrupt end, saving the lives of many.

This seems like an uneccessary exercise in anti-American propaganda. Give-em-Hell Harry would not be pleased.


15 posted on 08/04/2012 9:57:36 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (ABO)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kitkat

Not only did it save more Japanese lives than American lives, it also saved Japan from being divided into Soviet and American zones, which inevitably would have led to a Korea-like Civil War, a war that most likely we would have been heavily involved in.


16 posted on 08/04/2012 9:58:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: afraidfortherepublic

I am afraid in a few generations, the only things they will teach about WWII are the Internment Camps, the bombing of Dresden and the Atom Bomb, and will paint the Western Allies in a bad light, and totally ignore the Nazi and Japanese atrocities.


17 posted on 08/04/2012 10:01:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: oh8eleven

Who is that a picture of?


18 posted on 08/04/2012 10:09:51 AM PDT by kitkat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: oh8eleven

“My grandfather was horrified by the destruction caused by those weapons and dedicated the rest of his presidency
trying to make sure that it didn’t happen again. I hope that I can do the same, to work to hopefully rid the world of nuclear weapons,’ he said to AFP.”

What his grandfather said that mattered:

“Will it shorten the war? Then DO IT.”


19 posted on 08/04/2012 10:16:19 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: newheart
My old man was sailing out for the invasion of Japan when the war ended, I was in the oven. The Bomb saved the lives many of my Navy, Marine, and Army relatives.
20 posted on 08/04/2012 10:33:53 AM PDT by Little Bill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-38 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson