I’m not sure what that phrase means, “or injured.” Today it means a broken fingernail, but then it was more significant, as the WaTimes coverage clarifies quoting Tibbets, The blast killed or injured at least 140,000. Tibbets, a 30-year-old colonel at the time, and his crew of 13 dropped the five-ton “Little Boy” bomb over Hiroshima the morning of Aug. The Generals and Admirals were generally ready to fight to the last man standing in Japan, until the Emperor said no. The war ended in August 1945 only because of the unprecedented entry of the Emperor into Japanese politics, after the atomic bombs. Tibbets grew tired of criticism for delivering the first nuclear weapon used in wartime, telling family and friends that he wanted no funeral service or headstone because he feared a burial site would only give detractors a place to protest.Īnd he insisted he slept just fine, believing with certainty that using the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved more lives than they erased because they eliminated the need for a drawn-out invasion of Japan.Ĭonsidering the estimates AT THAT TIME were over a million Allied casualties, and more than that on the Japanese side, I think Tibbets has the moral high ground here.
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The attack marked the beginning of the end of World War II. Throughout his life, Tibbets seemed more troubled by other people’s objections to the bomb than by him having led the crew that killed tens of thousands of Japanese in a single stroke. Paul Tibbets, who etched his mother’s name - Enola Gay - into history on the nose of the B-29 bomber he flew to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, died Thursday after six decades of steadfastly defending the mission. In recent years he has made the news about being unrepentant over what some vocal (revisionist) critics consider a war crime. Just another example of the excellence we have to look forward to for the next four years.Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, best known as the pilot of the Enola Gay that dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb onto the Japanese war-supporting city of Hiroshima, has died at the age of 92. OBAMA: Well, hopefully it will make the Congressional Hispanic Caucus shut up for a while. Salazar say about your commitment to diversity? President-elect, what does the appointment of Mr. OBAMA: He’s a Western Democrat with a pulse. OBAMA: I felt that he very clearly met the strict criteria I was looking for in an Interior secretary. REPORTER #1 : So why did you make an exception? OBAMA: I’ve made it clear from day one that my cabinet would be made up of only the best and the brightest this country has to offer. Can you tell us why you chose Ken Salazar?
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Why did the leader of the free world put a second rate attorney from Manassa in charge of our nation’s natural resources? The Presidential press conference was telling:
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Andrew Ripemoff of summed it up pretty well. Please please please tell me that part of the "reorganization" has to be they tell the UAW to take a hike, but I really doubt it.Īnyway, the big buzz in The Valley this week has been the appointment of half of the Salazar Congressional clan, Ken, to the Secretary of the Interior.
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What a great past few months this has been! So much exciting news, with the latest of the 14 billion "loan" to the Big 3.