Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
#6958647
08/08/20 11:42 PM
08/08/20 11:42 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
I say no.
But that doesn't mean we can't express sympathy for the survivors and regret for all the war dead on both sides.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958653
08/08/20 11:49 PM
08/08/20 11:49 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,275 Lakeland,Minnesota
Bogmaster
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,275
Lakeland,Minnesota
|
If the two atom bombs had not been dropped,another million lives would have been lost. Japan was warned about what was going to happen,they refused to end the war. It took both bombs to end it ,and in no way should an apology be offered. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958663
08/08/20 11:54 PM
08/08/20 11:54 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 476 Oregon
SpottedOwl
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 476
Oregon
|
What for?
Anyone actually think they wouldn’t have used it as a strike weapon if they could. Not an end weapon like we did?
Owl
Spend time with your kids while THEY still have time
Your life is an occasion ..... Rise to it
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958664
08/08/20 11:55 PM
08/08/20 11:55 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340
se South Dakota
|
James- Do you know of the "Meeting House" section of Tokyo March 8/9, 1945 B-29 bombing raid...?
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958667
08/08/20 11:56 PM
08/08/20 11:56 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
I'm glad they didn't have to drop a third bomb. I heard the next target was Osaka, where my wife's family lived.
The Emperor ended that war, after the military refused to surrender.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958668
08/08/20 11:56 PM
08/08/20 11:56 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340
se South Dakota
|
Ok, a day off, March 9/10, 1945
Ok, off on another account. The mission was called "Operation Meeting House", not the section of Tokyo.
Last edited by NonPCfed; 08/08/20 11:58 PM.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: NonPCfed]
#6958671
08/08/20 11:57 PM
08/08/20 11:57 PM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
James- Do you know of the "Meeting House" section of Tokyo March 8/9, 1945 B-29 bombing raid...? No, I don't; but I'm happy to hear about it. Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958675
08/09/20 12:04 AM
08/09/20 12:04 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340 se South Dakota
NonPCfed
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,340
se South Dakota
|
I first read about it 40+ years ago in junior high in a book called The Fall of Japan. It was the first successful major fire-bombing event of Japan. Over 100,000 dead in one night but almost no Americans know about, everything centers on the two single bomb weapons 5 months later. Dead is dead, burnt to a crisp is burnt to a crisp, whether its from 1 bomb or thousands of magnesium bomblets starting your mostly wooden city on fire. People get hung up on semantics, especially when they're clueless of more history than just what a few media outlet feed them once and while... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958676
08/09/20 12:12 AM
08/09/20 12:12 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,076 Maine
mainer
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 1,076
Maine
|
Should the Japanese people today apologize to the US for their attack on Pearl Harbor and starting the war with the US? 2,403 people died in that attack -- 2,335 military personnel and 68 civilians. How many people died during this war as a result of Japan's decision to attack the US?
Are there any Japanese people alive today who took part in that decision to invade and bomb Pearl Harbor? Do you believe any of the Japanese people today are responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent war nearly 80 years ago?
But that doesn't mean we can't express regret and pity for those who cart out such inane and useless propositions for the purpose of chastening America because it's easy sport.
Last edited by mainer; 08/09/20 12:23 AM. Reason: icing on the cake
"...in a very few days we succeeded in taking over one hundred beaver, the skins of which were worth ten dollars per pound." Jim Beckwourth (1856)
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958697
08/09/20 02:02 AM
08/09/20 02:02 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 4,324 AK
FairbanksLS
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 4,324
AK
|
You'd have made one heck of a community organizer James.
formerly posting as white dog
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958704
08/09/20 02:30 AM
08/09/20 02:30 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379 Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
James
OP
"Minka"
|
OP
"Minka"
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 17,379
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
|
Nah, I'd make a terrible community organizer. Cant even get anyone to like me here.
Jim
Forum Infidel since 2001
"And that troll bs is something triggered snowflakes say when they dont like what someone posts." - Boco
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958705
08/09/20 02:35 AM
08/09/20 02:35 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,275 Lakeland,Minnesota
Bogmaster
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,275
Lakeland,Minnesota
|
LOL,James,I have never said a bad word about you. I may not agree with you on many things--but that seems to be the case with a lot of people. Tom
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958706
08/09/20 02:48 AM
08/09/20 02:48 AM
|
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 6,562 MB
Jurassic Park
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 6,562
MB
|
How in comparison was the Hiroshima bomb to the Beirut explosion?
Cold as ice!
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958707
08/09/20 02:51 AM
08/09/20 02:51 AM
|
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,275 Lakeland,Minnesota
Bogmaster
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,275
Lakeland,Minnesota
|
About like a firecracker to a case of dynamite.Hiroshima killed over 100,00--many from radiation well after the bomb explosion. Tom
Last edited by Bogmaster; 08/09/20 02:53 AM.
If my feet aren't wet,I must not be trapping. Tom Olson MTA life member#100,also WTA life member
|
|
|
Re: Should the US apologize for Hiroshima?
[Re: James]
#6958709
08/09/20 03:12 AM
08/09/20 03:12 AM
|
Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 7,346 W NY
Turtledale
trapper
|
trapper
Joined: Mar 2020
Posts: 7,346
W NY
|
No. Why all of a sudden do we have to apologise for everything? Whether it's slavery, women's rights or dropping a bomb what happened so many years ago has been either handled or not. Many things have brought about the end of a war and they all have been good imo. Some wars never seem to end and people keep dying, that is a reason to be apologetic.
NYSTA, NTA, FTA, life member Erie county trappers assn.,life member Catt.county trappers
|
|
|
|
|