Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Plane's Name is Still Weirdly Ironic and Faggy Though, Right?

HERE'S some thought from each of the dozen men who were on the Enola Gay. Including, interestingly enough, Major Thomas Ferebee:
Before and after he did his part. After the war, Ferebee stayed with the Air Force, serving in the Strategic Air Command and in Vietnam. He retired as a full Colonel.

Colonel Ferebee, who retired from the Air Force in 1970, always argued that the Hiroshima bomb was necessary. “I’m convinced that the bombing saved many lives by ending the war,” he told Newsweek magazine in 1970.

That doesn’t mean he had no opinion on the further use of such weapons.

”Now we should look back and remember what just one bomb did, or two bombs,” he told The Charlotte Observer in 1995, the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. ”Then I think we should realize that this can’t happen again.”

I "interestingly," because the only place to get bombed in my own hometown is a joint called Ferebees.

Life. Fucking crackers, right?

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