Brigadier General Paul Tibbets served with honor. We owe all those that served in WWII a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. He helped to save the world. Williams should be ashamed of himself.

Thank you Brigidier General Tibbets, rest in peace.

It is sad that left wing whack jobs have taken a place of celebration away from most Americans. I mean, people can go to Elvis' grave to celebrate his life and music, but we may never get to do the same for a true American hero. All because some people don't get the fact that those two bombs may have saved hundreds of thousands of lives by ending WWII.

As and aside, I have seen specials on WWII that showed crewmembers of the Enola Gay saddened by the events. I doubt they regretted their role in the bombing, but you could see in their faces they regretted that their was a need to drop them at all. I wish I could remember exactly who was interviewed, but it was touching.

"Brigadier General Paul Tibbets served with honor. We owe all those that
served in WWII a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid. He helped
to save the world. Williams should be ashamed of himself. Thank you Brigidier General Tibbets, rest in peace."

Hear, hear!

First of all, may God bless Gen. Tibbets for the extraordinary mission he and his gallant crew undertook that morning of August 06, 1945.

Many thousands, if not millions, of American lives were saved from certain death by that mission. Invading the home islands of Japan would have been a nightmare. One far worse than Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, and the rest combined.

Brian Williams is about as ignorant an American as you will ever see on television.

Ken Burns, Hiroshima, and the Atomic Bomb.

This is my take on Ken Burns and his experience in the making of his recent WW II documentary. As the anticipation swelled for the beginning of the film, I could not help but wonder how Ken Burns would tackle the historic and often contorted view (as Williams demonstrates) of the events ending the war with Japan.

I assumed that it would be the worst possible take on the use of the bomb to end that horrible and tragic war the Japanese Empire started, however somehow during the process of 7 long years in making the film, Burns, I believe became enlightened on the reality of what was. I did see one interview with him in which the question was raised, and although the words were not as strong as one might wish for, they were warmly received. It appeared that Ken Burns dived so deep into the facts and the horrors of WW II that he came to understand that the scope was so much larger than the typical shallow thinking of the Brian Williams's of our day, and learned that for himself, he could not possibly be in a position of passing judgment on the decisions required during those days.

 I can remember reading a history of WWII by Samual Eliot Morrison, who was a naval historian.  In his books he presented the invasion plans, for Japan, which went on until 1947, fighting island by island. 

When we went into Japan, after the surrender, we were amazed by what they still had to fight with and saw their plans for suicide attacks. 

ANyone, who has read the history of that war, should look at what their citizens did in Okinawa.  They were so thoroughly indoctrinated they actually believed the Americans would rape and kill them for no reason so they took their families and jumped to their death, from high cliffs.  There was little doubt these people would fight to the death.

Not only did dropping the bomb save American lives, it also saved countless Japanese lives, since we didn't have to invade.  We had no reason to believe the Japanese would surrender, without a terrible fight, since it wasn't in their belief system.

The revisionists have no facts to back their assumptions they can only go by what they believe they would do, in this instance.  The shame is, since they don't go away, their view may end up winning, since so few people understand what really went on.

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"It appeared that Ken Burns dived so deep into the facts and the horrors
of WW II that he came to understand that the scope was so much larger
than the typical shallow thinking of the Brian Williams's of our day,
and learned that for himself, he could not possibly be in a position of
passing judgment on the decisions required during those days."

I watched a few of Burns's interviews also and couldn't agree more with you. As are any projects we might put our hearts and minds into deeply, the experience changes us at a core level--emotionally and psychologically.

I do not believe every person, e.g. Williams, has the ability to do what Burns does which is to completely immerse oneself in history or any other subject and explore what one finds there--regardless of how disturbing it may become or how much anxiety it produces--and see it through to the end. 

I gotta give Burns credit for that and Williams an "F".  

On the event of Paul's passing his son sent me an email.

Dad always after all those years had peace with himself , his God and the belief in his actions and now he is at rest.

May he rest in peace, but my biggest fear is some won't let him.

These media idiots are going to make my head explode!

As are the revisionist historians.

One of the things on my agenda in the next year is to get to the Smithsonian to see the Enola Gay.

As I posted earlier, on the Open Thread, I have an 8 x 10 black & white photo of the Enola Gay, on Eiwok (I think), signed by BG Paul Tibbets.  The signature is "Paul Tibbets, Pilot".  It is one of my most cherished possessions.  I am looking at it as I'm posting this.

Men like Paul Tibbets and George Marshall were the LIONS of the last century. 

Brian Williams isn't fit to lick his heel.  I'm sorry everyone, but is time to seek and destroy these liberal lies....including the apologist revisionist history of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq!

Okay, I'll calm down now.

Godspeed, General Tibbets.  I thank you for my way of life.  Truly. 

And to you lying liars in the media....bugger off.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

A job well done, Sir.

Thank you for your service.

I think the extent of most journilists military knowledge comes from watching 50 episodes of M*A*S*H.

  Had we not forced the Japanese to surrender and had they fought just as hard in their homeland as they did on their islands like Okinawa we would have had to kill millions and millions of Japanese.  We were going to win.  It was just a matter of how many people were going to be killed in the process.  They could have forced us to virtually wipe out the entire Japanese population.

Years ago we lived in Gardnerville NV and heard the General would be in Reno; we were able to take our son (then about 7 years old) to meet him. We had to stand in a long line, but we all felt it was worth the wait. My son still treasures a photo he has of himself standing with the General.

  It's really unfortunate that all of the great peacemakers are alive at one time.  We have carter, clinton, obama, edwards, pelosi, msm, in fact more peacemakers than can be listed here.  If only one of these peace giants had been alive during WWII so much destruction could have been avoided.  Any one of them could have talked to our enemies and ushered in an era of  mutual understanding, peace and cooperation.

When Brian Williams is an old man and taking the measure of his life, I hope somebody reminds him that one of our nation’s heroes is lying in an unmarked grave because of the words of people like him.

Would atomic bombs been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had the Japanese themselves not made a surprise attack on American military facilities in and around Pearl Harbor? Wouldn't thousands of people not died in the Pacific and Asia Theaters if the Japanese not attacked? Wouldn't many Chinese not died had Japan not attacked the Chinese mainland in 1931 (or whenever the exact date was). Who were the original aggressors in the Pacific/Asian region? What lessons did Allied military planners learn from Okinawa?

In answering these questions, one can and should conclude that using whatever weapons the Allies had at their disposal was both wise and appropriate. Why? The Japanese were the aggressors.  They sought to defeat the Americans and British militarily for their legitimate objections to Japanese Imperialism. Further the Japanese demonstrated that a conventional invasion of the Japanese main islands would mean fierce combat leading to many hundreds of thousands of deaths--not to mention the wounded--and very possibly the near extinction of the Japanese people. Even though President Truman agonized over whether or not to do it, in the end, the dropping of the atomic bombs may have been the better alternative for both the Allies and Japanese as many more lives were saved than would have been lost had the original invasion plans been followed instead.

Just my $0.02

I only regret that he had but one bomb to drop for our country.

Put that in your bong and toke it.