Paul Tibbets, the pilot responsible for dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 died yesterday at the age of 92. Now I have no problem with this man, a soldier who was doing his job, a job that ended up wiping out 140,000 people in a six moth period, with 78,000 of them dead in a fraction of an instant. This man ushered in the atomic age, an age where even now people live in fear of a nuclear attack.
Let's be honest people, if the world comes to nuclear war, we'll all be killed before we even knew what was going on. So let's remember this soldier not as a hero, but as a man who flew his Enola Gay over Japan on August 6th 1945 and dropped a bomb that sent shockwaves through a country, through the world, and through history
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I feel kinda bad for the guy. In all of his 92 years, what he is going to be remembered for is killing a bunch of people and introducing the world to nuclear war.
I know its doubtful that anything else in his life truly effected the world as that one moment did, but I still find it kinda sad for him :-(
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