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...charge of the bomb. We flew to the rendezvous point, where we'd meet two other airplanes one with instruments to measure the blast and another holding observers. The observer plane didn't show up. We circled, and after about 35 minutes, I said to Sweeney, "Damn it, proceed to the first target...
...boarded the B-29 bomber with the name Enola Gay painted on its nose would forget little about that long day. They remembered staying up through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south end of the Japanese island of Honshu...
...Over There, the FX drama about an American unit fighting in Iraq, a soldier making a video e-mail complains about being stuck "in the middle of got-damn downtown s___ville." The military censor cuts him off, saying he's not allowed to divulge his location. He's incredulous. "You see any signs for Downtown S___ville?" She's unmoved. "If you can't follow the rules," she says flatly, "you can't send the message...
...Owain and Wheet are all from towns in North Wales. They all went to the University of Bangor (like a Penn State), spend most of their time either in or thinking about the pub, and speak the ancient language of Welsh. And they’re damn proud...
...when you say that we?ve come a long way from ?Frankly my dear, I don?t give a damn? causing a big ruckus, that a lot of us miss that America, aren?t you causing the problem, too, with your own ranting at people...