It's the only way to be sure."
Victory
Pssst, Mr. Kerry. Mr. Truman was a democrat, and had the testicular fortitude to make a decision that ended WW2, WITHOUT relying on the U.N.
The true wonder of America is that, not only did she crush Japan, she rebuilt her.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.:
. . . I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of “face.”
An old Okie
From the Maha -
RUSH: Back to this Hiroshima business, I remember when I was in Sacramento, the mayor at the time was a babe named Anne Ruden, and big lib, just big lib. And every August she'd go over to Japan and basically they had big rallies and so forth where the people go over there and tell Japan that America was sorry for dropping the bombs, except it was just independent little mayors, some little towns, and Anne Ruden would go over there and say America is sorry. And I always got mad because we're not sorry. We haven't apologized for that. We're not sorry we did that. It ended the war, for crying out loud.
And Sunday is Nagasaki, so we can look forward to that great anniversary, too, but Robert from Wilkes-Barre said we need to reflect on this. And I pooh-poohed that during his call, but I actually think that we should, folks. Let us take our remaining moments here in today's excursion into broadcast excellence and to reflect on today's anniversary of Hiroshima and Sunday's anniversary of Nagasaki.
(PAUSE FOR REFLECTION)
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
Damn. Good job. Do it again if we have to!
Wasn`t it right after the bomb that Godzilla started showing up at Japans door? Oh wait, the nuclear mutation had to take effect so it was about 10 years later. Truly devastating to Japan. Once they would construct a building, that bastard would come in and smash it down. Then other mutations started showing up, Mothra, Rodan, Ghidrah, the smog monster, Gigan, Megalon, mechagodzilla, Biollante, Megaguiras....Yes sir, it will be a cold day in hell before Japan ever attacks us again, that is why I endorse nuclear weapons. We should just nuke the middle east and they too will have Godzilla and other monsters to tend to. That monster will come right in and knock over all the Mosques.
Here is a letter I juse sent to my local paper....
“Atomic Bombs Saved Lives”
It’s another anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We must again suffer fools and listen to the hand wringing of the hate-America crowd. They have no knowledge or understanding of history.
The fact is dropping those two bombs saved the lives of 350,000 POW’s and Millions of American soldiers and Japanese citizens.
The Japanese mindset of dieing for the Emperor was ingrained in the people and they were not “about to surrender” as the history rewriters now state. Consider these facts and events; the mass suicide on Siapan, kamikaze flyers, the banzi suicide charge and the Japanese strategy of “ War of attrition” that was played out on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Look it up, I don’t have the time to give a history lesson.
Dropping those bombs was not a “crime against humanity” it was the answer to the prayers of millions of mothers and fathers.
CP
This is for you Jeff(Editor) and it ‘s true
As a test I asked a young Naples Daily News reporter “Where is Guadalcanal?” She said, “I don’t know, I just moved here.”
I want 59 nuclear candles on the cake.
Actually, it's tomorrow, Aug 9. My birthday
I'll second those thoughts.
Interestingly, in segments of South Korean society, this day is acutally celebrated. A good friend of mine was stationed at Osan AB (about 35 NM SW of Seoul) in the early 1980s. On August 8th, she was shopping outside the base, when she noticed that many of the older Koreans were dressed in their holiday finest and had ceremonial lanterns outside their homes. Later, when she asked a Korean officer what the occasion was, he stared at her in amazement. "Don't you know what day this is? This is the day you dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki." Koreans who remember the horrors of Japanese occupation remember the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as reasons to celebrate....
I saw pictures of it and the Japanese officials looked very defeated.
And all the People cried "A-MEN"!
One of Harry Trumans most astute decisions. He saved the lives of not only most of us that were there but hundreds of thousands of Japanese as well.
***Thank you Harry Truman for preventing my father from becoming a possible statistic in an invasion of the Japaneese mainland **
My dad also.
Same with my father. I am glad that that Demoncrat (Truman) had some balls.
Likewise. My dad served in Europe in Patton's Third Army and was on a troop ship headed to the Orient when the bomb was dropped.