Son of Pilot Who Dropped A-Bomb Opposes,

[joegrundman]

Every year there is a ceremony to mark the Hiroshima bombing, and every year the US sends a delegation.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by joegrundman

Every year there is a ceremony to mark the Hiroshima bombing, and every year the US sends a delegation.

True, but this is the first year we are poised to 'apologize'.

[joegrundman]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

True, but this is the first year we are poised to 'apologize'.

maybe i was wrong. i lived in japan for three years, and they hold the ceremony every year. i was pretty sure that on each occasion a us official was present and spoke publicly.

but if the japanese are making a big deal about it, clearly something is different. Maybe it was always in an 'unofficial capacity' before.

But if poised to apologise, as you put it, how is it an 'unsaid apology' as Tibbets jr. puts it?

In any case, although this clearly has the makings of another conservative storm in a teacup, you shouldn't worry too much about it. The commemoration is very uncontroversial, lamenting lives lost in war and wishing that the world never again finds itself using nukes on civilian centres. That sort of thing.