AUGUST 9, 1944

[Alk8944]

Not exactly a celebration, but remembrance of two events that occurred this day.

#1: The day I was born. Now I'm 79 years ago. Hooray, NOT.

#2: Then, on my first birthday The second Atomic bomb was dropped by "Bock's Car" on Nagasaki, the final blow that ended WWII. I will bet not many of you ever had such a birthday present!

 

[Pisgah]

How in the world did our government keep that secret until a whole year later?

 

[SMSgt]

That would be 1945.

 

[soFlaNative]

Happy Birthday

 

[mdf9183]

I'm right behind you, I'll turn 79 on the 15th.

 

[sophie]

Happy Birthday to you and may you have many more.

Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan—-August 9th, 1945

 

[jeffrefrig]

Details be darned! Happy Birthday! Hope for many more.

 

[Alk8944]

Re-read my post, corrected. #2 Was supposed to include the comment "then, on my 1st birthday"! That's what happens when old people post when they are not quite awake yet!

 

[Heinz]

Happy Birthday, I am a lot younger than you, April of 1945

 

[Mule Packer]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!...and many, many more!

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[Just another 22 shooter]

How in the world did our government keep that secret until a whole year later?

Pretty simple answer: social media did not exist.

 

[TJm15.38]

Happy Birthday! If we would have had the bomb in 1944, do you think we would have dropped it on Berlin or elsewhere in Germany? If so, I think it would be a very different world today.

 

[Golddollar]

Happy Birthday to you. Now you need to visit your local gun shop so you can find a present to yourself and go out to celebrate.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Happy birthday. My great uncle Samuel had been in France for 64 days. Dad had been there 62 days.

 

[walkin jack]

Happy birthday! I've been 79 for nearly 2 months. I ain't so bad...yet. So far, so good!

 

[tlawler]

Today also is:

The day Jerry Garcia died
My Mother in Law's birthday
Anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders by Charles Manson and company
Anniversary of my first marriage

So, kinda a date that will live in infamy for me.

 

[robvious]

It is also my late parents anniversary... in 1958... and for the record my birthday (and Rusty's) fals between the 2 bombs on the 5th... you generally don't get to pick the day you are born...

 

[Old 44 Guy]

I think I was 14 in 1945. Korea was in the future.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Bock's Car is on exhibit at the National Museum of the US Air Force, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base outside Dayton, Ohio...

 

[fiasconva]

Happy birthday but I have to say that no one should complain about it being their 79th birthday considering the alternative.