[jerry]

Paul Tibbets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Midas]

May God rest his soul, he was a true hero.

[Dallas]

He was a professional military officer with a tough job to do, and he did it. All current political correctness aside he and his aircrewman as well as the aircrew of Brocks Car (the other A-bomb aircraft) saved the US an estimated one million casualities if the US had had to invade Japan. There is no telling how many millions of Japanese casualities there would have been.

An interesting little tidbit of history is that the US govvernment ordered 1 million purple heart medals in early 1945 in anticipation of the invasion of Japan. Since the casualities never occurred the government has been handing out WWII era purple hearts ever since.

[toolman]

I saw this online at MSN and thought was in very poor taste, they placed a link to a video about the suffering of the Japanese people in the aftermath of the bombing, next to the headline about his death. It was just more of the same politically correct B.S. that's infected this country. We don't care about who helped us, only who we may have wronged-whether we did or not.

[Dallas]

The thing about history that most people can't or refuse to understand is that when looking at a historical event or person(s), you have to look at them in context of the times they were in.

[gunney_m]

R.I.P, you will not be forgotten.

[F1609]

I saw him almost exactly one year ago in Columbus Ohio. He was at the gun show for a book signing. Just looking at him made me sad. He looked as if he was going through hell. He didn't look very healty at all. He was being wheeled out in a wheel chair as i was coming in. I was planning on getting there sooner to go get his book and maybe have a chance to talk with him for awhile, but was held up by traffic. When I looked at him I noticed that it looked as if he had no strength of his own. I'm sad that he is dead, and I know my grandfather only has a few years left in him too. But he is as strong as an ox and walks probably a mile a day, old man won't rest. Make it better he broke his hip this summer. Four weeks later he was already up and walking around the house. Yelled at the nurses for trying to help him walk when he was doing it on his own, stubborn old man. R.I.P Paul.