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UrbScotty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 10:40 PM Original message |
Pilot who dropped atom bomb on Nagasaki dies |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. Technically ... |
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UrbScotty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 10:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Technically, yes. |
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DulceDecorum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. I wonder what he is going to say |
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thebigidea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 11:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. "I was only following orders" seems popular. |
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Geo55 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 12:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. That was me 1st thought...came you imagine ? n/t |
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ferrisam21169 (3 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 02:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
24. He'll have plenty to say... |
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jdonaldball (684 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 03:25 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Not hundreds of thousands. Millions. |
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HarveyBriggs (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 05:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
33. My great uncle was murdered at Pearl Harbor. |
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rooboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 12:46 AM Response to Reply #33 |
37. I have no sympathy for people who start wars or kill civilians... |
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JohnyCanuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
5. If the Buddhist are right, |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-04 11:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. You think as much as Rumsferatu or Wolfowitz? |
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citizensoldier1970 (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 04:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
32. Depends on how you look at it. |
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alfredo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
7. there was a famous kitemaker in Nagasaki that survived both |
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Stanchetalarooni (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
8. Sad thing about it all is that....he had his orders. |
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DubyaSux (366 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
9. Pretty bad, but... |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 09:30 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Yeah, I agree--It was a horrible thing to do, and in retrospect, probably |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 11:47 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Your Japanese pals are WRONG!!! |
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hightime (395 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 12:24 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. 20/20 hindsight is a beautiful thing |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 12:31 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Not according to the History Channel. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 02:56 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. As a matter of fact... |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 10:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. That's the show I was referring to |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 02:39 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. "Interrogation...following V-J Day" |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 03:30 PM Response to Reply #22 |
28. Agreed.... |
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Laughing Mirror (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 11:01 AM Response to Reply #22 |
42. We had broken the Japanese codes, for one |
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HarveyBriggs (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 11:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
35. Oh BALONEY! |
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chenGOD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. You sound like the conservative Koreans over here in Seoul. |
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Donkeyboy75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 01:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
39. Uh, don't you think the Japanese officials had reason to say that? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
11. On August 9, 1945, the Bock's Car dropped an atomic bomb (the "Fat Man") |
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zanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 10:17 AM Response to Original message |
12. Okay, Christians... |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 10:35 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. No good Christian would judge that. |
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Geo55 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 12:26 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Oh....so you're one of "those" Christians.....lol n/t |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 12:29 AM Response to Reply #19 |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
14. R.I.P. General Sweeney, You did what you had to do. |
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Endangered Specie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-04 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
15. "I was just following my orders" |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 02:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Just as thousands of other US bomber pilots did |
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Zerex71 (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 04:34 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. On the contrary, the two are exactly the same. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. Hope he finds a better fate than the one he delivered to thousands |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
29. Anyone know who were in the chase planes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki? |
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Zerex71 (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-19-04 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. Well, at least he'll get a firsthand look |
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Donkeyboy75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 01:41 AM Response to Reply #30 |
40. No. Truman did. |
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Tight_rope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 12:40 AM Response to Original message |
36. I'm sure he was not proud of what he did in the end. God will deal with |
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Heyo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
41. Just reading the debate here.... |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
43. One of the reasons for dropping the bomb was to impress and |
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Bush was AWOL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
44. The Bomb was NOT A MISTAKE! |
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edbermac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-20-04 12:57 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. Have to agree... |
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