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free and easy
Contributed by
denno
on
Wednesday, 24th November 2004 @ 03:57:31 AM in AEST
Topic:
war
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free and easy
a bird
blue skys
pink fluffy clouds
a rainbow
red like blood
a human star
born on earth
scorch the ground
gaze with melting eyes
a war
for peace?
"My God," he asked himself, "what have we done?"
The July 24, 1995 issue of Newsweek writes:
In the moments after the bomb detonated over the target at 8:15 in the morning of August 6th, women ran shrieking into the rivers, with their skin hanging off them like shreds of their kimonos. Birds were ignited in midair. Perhaps 70,000 men, women and children, most of them nonmilitary, died instantly. An additional 50,000 died within months from radiation poisoning and burns. Looking down from the Enola Gay a few seconds after the blast, a crewman thought the city looked like "a pot of boiling black oil".
"A bright light filled the plane," wrote Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. "We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud...boiling up, mushrooming." For a moment, no one spoke. Then everyone was talking. "Look at that! Look at that! Look at that!" exclaimed the co-pilot, Robert Lewis, pounding on Tibbets's shoulder. Lewis said he could taste atomic fission; it tasted like lead. Then he turned away to write in his journal. "My God," he asked himself, "what have we done?"
©Newsweek, 1995
(special report, "Hiroshima: August 6, 1945")
note: Paul Tibbets was Colonel, not "Lt. Colonel," when he was the pilot of the Enola Gay.
Copyright ©
denno
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Re: free and easy
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by OnAngelswings on
Wednesday, 24th November 2004 @ 09:22:07 AM AEST
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| Only God knows how it will all end...all we can do is pray for all those young men and ladies there now.....nicely written...Shari |
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Re: free and easy
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by freckle on
Sunday, 30th January 2005 @ 05:31:42 PM AEST
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| Really good write. A few words but they say and ask so much..... |
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