Happy Hiroshima day.

[hobbit.]

Last year my neighbours kicked off because i had a small (ish) fireworks display to mark VJ Day. all tasteful and nice.

This year, due to their comments on facebuck etc i have decided to mark Hiroshima day instead with a fantastic pyro show testing out my new Cobra firing system.

How will you be marking these events?

 

[thør]

"No one in Japan really knew what was coming. But you have to wonder whether anyone in America truly understood what was coming, either?

Captain William Parsons of the Manhattan Project briefed the crew of the Enola Gay (and others) before they departed on their historic mission: “The bomb you are going to drop,” he told them, “is something new in the history of warfare. It is the most destructive weapon ever produced. We think it will knock out everything within a three mile area.”

Well, yes, it did. But it also shattered glass in suburbs that were twelve miles away from the detonation site. "

 

[rockcasbah]

Speaking of bombs….

 

[FataMorgana]

I might watch Jaws again and abuse myself during Quint's speech.

 

[hobbit.]

I might watch Jaws again and abuse myself during Quint's speech.

video or it didnt happen.

 

[Specula]

Last year my neighbours kicked off because i had a small (ish) fireworks display to mark VJ Day. all tasteful and nice.

This year, due to their comments on facebuck etc i have decided to mark Hiroshima day instead with a fantastic pyro show testing out my new Cobra firing system.

How will you be marking these events?

You are disgusting. Celebrating the murder of innocent children (and adults)

 

[hobbit.]

You are disgusting. Celebrating the murder of innocent children (and adults)

Shock horror.

Last year i marked the end of that war - the one in which the Japanese didnt exactly show much thought for others.

It wasnt murder, seemingly it was an act of war, something the Japanese thought that they excelled at warfare upto that point.

you forgot to mention cats, dogs, koi carp and many other life forms.

 

[pecksniff]

By the end of the war, Japanese civilians of both sexes were drilling as a militia for a last-ditch defense of the Home Islands -- and, since there were not enough rifles to go around, they were drilling with bamboo spears. If the Allies had launched a ground invasion, the gutters of every town in Japan would have run with Japanese blood. The body count from the atomic bombings was trivial by comparison.

 

[mayfly13]

Nobody should forget the horrors unleashed by the Amerikkkans that day. You've inspired me to read Hiroshima by John Hersey again.

I've been reading some Comments sections and they mentioned other jaw-dropping things.
Like the fact that Americans offered immunity to the Unit 731 scientists.
(apparently the experiments carried by Japanese were even more brutal than Mengele's.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

and the radioactive experiments carried by the American hovt. on their own people, between 1951 to 1971.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/27/opinion/let-s-not-forget-radiation-in-the-us.html]

Shocking. What people in power do, I'm sure that other govts. have their dark secrets too.

 

[thør]

Isn't one of the Federal holidays in the US Memorial Day? Celebrating the people who killed said children and adults?

Only celebrating the ones who lost their lives while serving in the military. Like Remembrance Day in Canada.

 

[TJX]

Nobody should forget the horrors unleashed by the Amerikkkans that day. You've inspired me to read Hiroshima by John Hersey again.

No one should forget the horrors the Japanese and German peoples unleashed on the world during the 1930s. Upwards of 80 million dead as a direct result of WW2.

 

[rockcasbah]

No one should forget the horrors the Japanese and German peoples unleashed on the world during the 1930s. Upwards of 80 million dead as a direct result of WW2.

And they’ve been killing it ever since…. Germany and Japan make the best cars, electronics, etc in the world.

 

[thør]

I know, I'm just being a dick.

I figured.

On topic, I do have one of the world's most tasteless t-shirts from the now defunct Warehouse Bar in Oak Ridge, TN. I dunno if I will ever wear it. It proclaims, "Made in Oak Ridge, Tested in Japan.

 

[mayfly13]

Holy shit! I had no idea. Truly horrific.
.

Now that I read about Unit 731, (and that they HAD conducted biological warfare on Chinese cities), I recall an article I read years ago.
It said that Canadians and Americans were very worried because they'd found out that Japanese were planning to use a pandemic-inducing bio-bomb in Europe and America. Hence Canadians and Americans started developing their own bioweapons.

Madness.
It doesn't absolve Americans of the Hiroshima /Nagasaki genocides, but it does give a picture of the horror of those days.




"Plague-infected fleas, bred in the laboratories of Unit 731 and Unit 1644, were spread by low-flying airplanes upon Chinese cities, including coastal Ningbo and Changde, Hunan Province, in 1940 and 1941.[5] This military aerial spraying killed tens of thousands of people with bubonic plague epidemics. Epidemics broke out shortly after, to the elation of many researchers, where it was concluded that paratyphoid fever was "the most effective" of the pathogens.[30][31]:xii, 173."

During the final months of World War II, Japan planned to use plague as a biological weapon against San Diego, California. The plan was scheduled to launch on September 22, 1945, but Japan surrendered five weeks earlier."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731#Biological_warfare

 

[JohnnyPump1970]

I'm good with it.

 

[jarigi]

Last year my neighbours kicked off because i had a small (ish) fireworks display to mark VJ Day. all tasteful and nice.

This year, due to their comments on facebuck etc i have decided to mark Hiroshima day instead with a fantastic pyro show testing out my new Cobra firing system.

How will you be marking these events?

By all means, celebrate VJ day and the end of WW2 (August 14), but to 'celebrate' the destruction of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb is I think, callous and insensitive.

 

[toeskr]

Smells like sharpies and diarrhea in here.

 

[toeskr]

Can a lesbian be a dick?

 

[hobbit.]

By all means, celebrate VJ day and the end of WW2 (August 14), but to 'celebrate' the destruction of Hiroshima by an atomic bomb is I think, callous and insensitive.

read the thread then. And try to get the date of VJ day right, its August 15th.

Coming soon ''Happy Halloween''

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Mom makes no apologies.


Her point: "they started it, they had it coming."

 

[Champakian]

No one should forget the horrors the Japanese and German peoples unleashed on the world during the 1930s. Upwards of 80 million dead as a direct result of WW2.

Fights they picked...






Remember the inhumanity of the those two in other countries: civilian genocides.

You reap what you sow.

 

[rockcasbah]

Fights they picked...






Remember the inhumanity of the those two in other countries: civilian genocides.

You reap what you sow.

The allied bombing of Dresden is comparable to the bombing of Hiroshima and there are lots of other examples, so maybe there should be a day that marks American Might generally.

 

[Champakian]

4th of July

 

[rockcasbah]

4th of July

I thought the easy answer to that slopitch would be “ every day! Usa!”

 

[Champakian]

Even Easter?