I absolutely cannot believe that posting. I don't know if the pilot of the
Enola Gay was a hero but I do know that he did what he had to do and had good
reason to do it. We were not talking about an attack on the World Trade
Center. We are talking about World War II. Millions of people had been
killed already. Remember all the people dead in Nazi death camps. Remember
all the people and Americans who had already died at the hands of the
Japanese? My uncle was languishing in a Japanese prisoner of war camp at the
very time. He told me a story about a woman who used to walk by their camp
everyday. She had a small, emaciated dog and all of them would foam at the
mouth wanting to eat it, they were so hungry. What about the Battan death
march. Atrocities everywhere. Are you aware of how many more people would
have died if they had not dropped those bombs? The Japanese had been asked to
surrender and refused. That war had to be ended. I am not happy about the
people in those cities but they had no choice as far as I can see and I am
aghast that you can now try to look back and somehow make fun or criticize the
choices they made then. That was a simple case of evil and it had to be
stopped. Are you aware of how many so called innocent Japanese would have
died if we had had to take over their island? I, for one, think those men
were heroes and the pilot of that plane was a hero. We cannot possibly
imagine how horrible that war was and it is easy to sit behind a computer, or
over dinner, now and second guess those people and their actions then. If it
were not for those men and their actions, you might not have the freedom to
criticize them that you do now. There is absolutely no reason or
justification for comparing the men of our military in world war II to the
monsters who performed yesterday. Shame on you. Mack
