Pearl Harbor

ClaytonBigsby

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Why we don't hold the president accountable for knowing it was going to happen and allowing it to happen so we could enter the war is beyond me. Power, greed, and corruption are a MF.

In 40-50 years we will "discover" that BushCo did 911. Disgusting.
 

doublejj

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Why we don't hold the president accountable for knowing it was going to happen and allowing it to happen so we could enter the war is beyond me. Power, greed, and corruption are a MF.

In 40-50 years we will "discover" that BushCo did 911. Disgusting.
Yeah, Power, greed, and corruption applied across the board............
 

curious2garden

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Yet when we kill a quarter million people with a bomb we tell them to get over it.
You simply do not understand the people or the time. That bomb saved millions of japanese lives, or so thought the isei and nisei, who lived around us. It was a different world than you can imagine and history can not accurately portray the time. We did not tell them to get over it. We helped them rebuild their country. By the time my hub was stationed there in the 1970's they were our friends and almost a different people from the people our parents generation fought (my dad USA, hub's dad USMC).
 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
You simply do not understand the people or the time. That bomb saved millions of japanese lives, or so thought the isei and nisei, who lived around us. It was a different world than you can imagine and history can not accurately portray the time. We did not tell them to get over it. We helped them rebuild their country. By the time my hub was stationed there in the 1970's they were our friends and almost a different people from the people my parents generation fought.
I will suggest another immeasurable benefit. The two bombs made such a terrible example of using nukes in anger ... that we managed to avoid their use until this day. Now the Cold War with its doctrine of mutual assured destruction, a very credible world-killer scenario, has been dismantled.
 

curious2garden

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Seems the younger generation only remembers what they saw on the movies...
I think another element is that people change over time. It goes deeper than merely fashion but social mores. You can't judge yesterday by today's yardstick. I can understand that in retrospect but at the time when my parent's were saying the same thing I did not have a real understanding. Age brings perspective and wisdom to some, I'm just grateful for perspective.
 
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