Part 2 is here.

The segments include interviews with the bomber crew and survivors. Part 2 is especially wrenching for the stories of the children who survived and didn't survive.

War is terrible. Next time don't bomb Pearl Harbor.

part 3? part 4? part 5???

"My God, what have we done?"
- Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the Enola Gay

southblvd, there's no complete series of excerpts on YouTube or Google, just bits and pieces. The whole DVD collection is at Amazon.

"War is terrible. Next time don't bomb Pearl Harbor."

Does anyone really think that? Seriously!?

You shouldn't take anything quantumushroom says seriously...

" "War is terrible. Next time don't bomb Pearl Harbor."

Does anyone really think that? Seriously!?"

I do. I used to be against the bombing, but after researching the Asian front (which isn't really taught very thoroughly in the good ol' US of A), I'm not so much. It's not that I'm for it, but I can understand the rationale for its use.

Even barring that, Japan's atrocities against its Asian neighbors (and allied POW's) matched or exceeded Germany's in terms of cruelty (although arguably not numerically), and quite honestly, they made dying by atomic bomb look like a cake walk compared to what they put foreign civilians through.

If we had never used the bombs back then, would we be so hesitant to use them today?

The Ultimate Snuff video.

As terrible as the dropping of the bomb (both of them) was, the use of them saved many untold thousands of lives on both sides of the conflict. As a result, the war was brought to a close probably years earlier than it would have been otherwise. It is also a sad thing that most of the victims were civilian, although had the war run its course - large scale bombing would have been inevitable and as there were no precision munitions at the time, most of the victims of such bombings would have also been civilians just as they were in Germany.

War is never a pleasant or glorious thing although it is an unfortunate necessity at times.

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