“Most writers have looked to the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to find answers for the use of these atomic weapons. The real answers lay in thousands of graves from Pearl Harbor around the world to Normandy and back again.”
Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander and pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Gen. Tibbets died Nov. 1, 2007 at the age of 92.