ACarl (@ACarl)

When in his 80s, #Milt told me that when #Truman saw the actual horrific and terrifyingly gruesome effects of not-so-Little Boy, he ordered an immediate cancellation of the plan to bomb #Nagasaki. Milt sent that communication directly to the pilot of the plane carrying that second bomb. But that pilot wanted the Purple Heart, so he dropped it anyway. The USA military didn’t want to look bad to the world, so they pretended that the order FROM THE PRESIDENT never happened. Instead of court-martialing the pilot, Milt said they gave him the Purple Heart. “Honor” is the only driving legitimacy of the military. Right. https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/does-glory-superesede-honor/ #LittleBoy #PurpleHeart #Hiroshima