My grandfather fought and survived at Pearl Harbor as a 20 year old Army noob, but he lost a lot of friends. Did you know that the USS Arizona still leaks oil till this day? Anyways we get a lot of japanese residents and tourists and they are some of the most respectful people out there.
I'm proud that the U.S. Was able to to do this and help lead to the end of WWII faster than it would have with a ground invasion. Sorry that I don't have white liberal guilt over what the U.S. had to do to keep the rest of the world safe. Fuck anyone who thinks that this was a war crime or something for America to be ashamed over. I'm sick of revisionist history Libs out there who always paint America as the bad guy in every conflict. We saved millions of lives by doing this.
I can't imagine being aroynd to hear this on the news let alone being there. Thank you to your grandfather. I imagine this was like 10x worse than 911 in terms of shock/fear for citizens
We warned them to surrender or else this would happen. They refused and they got this. They played a stupid game and they won their stupid prize.
What's the N stand for: Nebraska or your true love: nuclear war. Just joking but nuking someone ain't as simplistic as that. You don't play showdown with A bombs.
Lets not forget that Tokyo was firebombed too. Since at that time, most of the homes were made of paper and wood products, Tokyo almost burned to the ground. Its called WAR for a reason and its never neat or pretty. I'd like to think Truman didn't want to nuke Japan but he had no choice. Today or in any future war, North America will not be spared as our adversaries have long since obtained the means to deliver nukes to any NA city at any time they please. Since prevailing winds and weather flows counterclockwise (west to east), any radioactive fallout from nuking NK will simply spread east and eventually reach Seattle, Portland and other WC cities. Everybody on this planet should pray those weapons are never used again because if they are, no one will be spared and as a scientist once put it: The Living will envy The Dead".
Not being ashamed and celebrating are two different things. I don't dispute that the bombs ended the war faster, but don't forget at the same time the Russians declared war and overran Manchuria. That's what really ended the war, full stop. But the prevailing narrative about the A-bombs served both the Japanese and the Americans going forward. Its just not the whole story. We had a number of reasons to use those bombs, ending the war was just one of them.
You can't watch that movie too many times, lol. I don't think I noticed the small print on those before, lol. Time to watch that again, and maybe one or two more SK movies...
. And the handscrawled greeting...."Yo!" ...i. it's so wrong but,....lol Trivia: Former WABC 77-AM DJ Bob Dayton's career went up in smoke by going 'shock jock' before the days of shock jocks when he commemorated the 20th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima by stupidly playing The Crests' song "Sixteen Candles" with its "Happy Birthday" intro:
Sounds like our gun culture is kinda of bored with their firearms. Maybe time for an upgrade. To nukes?
And the "good" guys are the only people who have actually used nuclear weapons so when it happens our handwringing will look just like that. Whoever uses nukes first will say they did it to win the war and save millions of potential lives that would be lost in a prolonged conflict. Sound familiar?
im sure we weren't looked upon as the good guys by a lot of people across the world. similar to today.. I had the opportunity about 15 years ago to talk to a gentleman who had been in ww2 in asia. it was shortly after saving private ryan came out. I can remember reading about guys who went through it not ever wanting to talk about it, simply because they didn't want to relive it and nobody who hadn't been there could really understand what they were saying. I was working on a street and needed the guy at the house to verify something and ended up having about a 3 hour conversation with him. mostly me listening and him opening up and telling me his stories. it was one of the most amazing things that has ever happened to me, and I knew that it would probably never happen again with the age of the men who had served. there is just about no chance of having that conversation anymore. those guys were all born in the 1920s and are mostly all dead at this point.
