Well, I would say if the gentleman was as lucky in business as he was in life, he was one very successful salesman. That is, of course, if he considered himself lucky after what he had endured.
Wow that is luck!
I'm waiting for that to happen, so I can buy up all the land arounds here fer cheap and create the Great Empire of Edokko. Only Arisaka and Nambu collector's get to be good standing citizens and all else are slaves.
Dropping a case or two of JD over me works for me anytime ! the bib part I don't know.... I wouldn't want to get a fancy on 'em and start collecting vintage bibs or anything like that.
Yeeech ! (as in Alfred E Newman), those sumbitchin neo-Hirohito types. You see a bunch of them congregating in their painted up buses and vans around the Yasukuni shrine all the time. Makes one want to shoot a knee mortar round or two right into them.Check ut this Japanese video clip; it's called "Japan Liberated Asia from Euro-American Colonizers"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PwbHPaGWLw&feature=related
Yea right, excellent reason to vaporize a quarter million mostly civlian population in two shots, hardly any strategic military targets in the bomb zone. Your precious A-bomb should have been dropped over the imperial palace if you really wanted to just impress the Japanese military to surrender.
I have a customer whos last name is Sherman. He absolutely hates going to Atlanta for his annual company meeting. He had told me how the people in the south were rude and unhelpful, and then it was explained to him exactly why. He pays with cash vs. showing his CC whenever possible
Dawgs, you certainly have a point there ! My dad would have certainly not survived being a new officer in the field if he had graduated the officer's school, an I would'nt have been around tossing empty beer cans and bottles with you.Edokko, I'm just glad the bombs caused the war to end soon enough for your Dad to be spared what would have been a sad fate and that as a result you are with us today
Dresden comes to mind, that was a bombing with NO redeeming value, (other than to prove that a fire storm of magnatude, could destroy everything in it's path, 250,000 to 600,000 dead) where as the two in Japan,(150,000 to 250,000 dead) brought closure to a World War. A fair trade I would say.
The Germans built a nuke in early 1945. It was enroute to Japan, when Germany surrendered. A U-Boat captain changed course for the US Navy base at Groton Connecticut and surrendered. Japan had built a missile and was planing to vaporize San Francisco about two weeks after bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Truman did the right thing. In the end my concern lays with the american boys who would have been sent to fight in japan and die there. The bombs ended the war period and although there may be regrets on both sides Japan did sneak attack the US and we did what was necessary to end the agression. Had Germany or Japan gotten the bombs first I have no dought they would have used them against us without a second thought.
