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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on August 06, 2015, 10:03:35 AM
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Star Member MineralMan (74,944 posts)
I was born one week and a day before the Hiroshima bomb.
I'm an "atomic baby." I've always had mixed feelings about our country being the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons in wartime. I had no idea, of course, that the bomb existed, for many years. With its development begun by FDR and the decision to use the weapons made by Truman, it was an event that has always been fraught with dispute.
In the aftermath, it led to the Cold War, which threatened all of us. I was in the generation that dove under desks in A-Bomb drills, and that had nightmares of bright flashes in the sky and certain death.
I still have mixed feelings about our use of this weapon. They will never be resolved in my mind. I don't enter into arguments about it, because there are arguments on both sides that have validity. I remain saddened that any such weapons were ever made to exist and deep regrets over the international divisiveness they created for so many years.
Each year, the issue is raised, and that is a good thing. We need to think about this. We need to examine our consciences about this. We need to resolve that such a thing will not occur again. We cannot change what happened, but we can change how we think about the use of such weapons in the future.
It is a sad anniversary in many ways.
You need to shut up.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027048003
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OMG! YOU COULD HAVE DIED!
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When was he born in relation to Roe v. Wade ?
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This one's for you, Mineral Oyl!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-z5iBk6iI[/youtube]
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Rock head feels compelled to make everything about him.
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Too bad he wasn't born one foot and one inch away from it.
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:bouncy: Me! :bouncy: Me! :bouncy: Making Hiroshima about :bouncy: Me! :bouncy: Me! :bouncy:
Between us two older dudes you're the older. Congratulations and STHU unless you have something meaningful/significant to say!
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I'm not making up my mind until I hear nadin's opinion.
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The use of the bomb on Japan caused the cold war?
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The use of the bomb on Japan caused the cold war?
No, the Cold War was George W. Bush's fault.
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No, the Cold War was George W. Bush's fault.
You forget that the great grandfather of W caused the "beer hall pustch" in Munich. So don't forget to add WWII to his list of crimes! /DUmode off
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MineralMan
I was born one week and a day before the Hiroshima bomb.
So. Its YOUR fault.
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And he remembers it like it was yesterday.
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Star Member MineralMan (74,944 posts)
I was born one week and a day before the Hiroshima bomb.
Don't flatter yourself, dickweed, there wasn't any connection between the two events.
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You need to shut up.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027048003
Please..........?
What an ass.