The "opportunity of a lifetime"? Do you have any humanity inside you whatsoever?
Although Tibbets himself WAS a bit of a warhawk, and probably did find a bit more satisfaction than regret from his assignment. I still would not want as my neighbor a person who could live with personally exterminating 80,000 human beings.
Imagine he had to accomplish the same thing, but he had all the victims on a conveyor belt leading between wood choppers. As the belt proceeds, he has to pull a lever, and an arm pushes each victim to the side into a chopper, where he hears their final screams as they are ground to pulp.
Or maybe a line up in a city park, where everyone stands there while Col. Tibbets walks up, and fires a single bullet into their heads from his revolver.
Mothers, fathers, grandparents, babies, nubile young females, and muscular young men. Toddlers in preschools, and patients in hospitals who were just beginning to feel better. It was not a great thing.
And don't spout the usual "saving the lives of invading troops" line. Valid or not, that's the political motivation, not the PERSONAL impact on someone who actually had to do the deed.
This was NOT an "opportunity", this was a horrible thing to ask a human being to do, and frankly those who thought it most important, should have been the ones to "push the button". Truman himself should have been in the lead plane ("F" the "risk" - it's his JOB) and staring through the bomb sight.
If you think this was a great assignment to spruce up Tibbet's annual job performance review, you are a sick individual.
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