E-MAIL THIS LINK
To: 

Nancy Pelosi Visits Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial
HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday became the highest-ranking sitting American official to visit ground zero of the world's first atomic bombing. The Democrat, who came to this western port city for a two-day annual gathering of Group of Eight legislative heads, joined other speakers in paying their respects at a memorial to the Hiroshima bombing. One by one, each bowed, then laid flowers at a white, arch-shaped monument containing the names of more than 200,000 victims of the nuclear blast.

No serving U.S. president or vice president has ever visited Hiroshima. As speaker of the House of Representatives, Pelosi is second in line to the presidency after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter stopped by the memorial in 1984, after his term, as a private citizen.

Yohei Kono, leader of Japan's House of Representatives, said no decisions were made during the meeting on peace and disarmament, but he emphasized the symbolic importance of discussing the future of nuclear weapons in the city.

"The fact that they all came to Hiroshima has significant meaning," said Kono after the group's daylong meeting Tuesday.
It's Fact #1 of what the United States can do if you launch a sneak attack on us ...
"I hope that even more international political leaders come to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and see with their own eyes, so that they will be able to strengthen their resolve for disarmament and nuclear disarmament going forward."

Barbaric Japs started the war killing and raping citizens of other countries at will. We ended it. My father was on a troop transport to the mainland where and estimated many American troop casualties were predicted. Those bombs saved his life.
The father of my best friend was a gunner on an Avenger torpedo bomber on an escort carrier in early 1945. He reminds his children that they're here because he's here, and he's here because his Dad is here, and his Dad is here because Harry Truman dropped the bomb.

Posted by: Flavinter Cherese8323 2008-09-03
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=248934