Author Topic: Excellent read Hiroshima/Nagasaki  (Read 1102 times)

Offline Yeager

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Manhattan Project" words by Neil Peart - Rush
« Reply #30 on: August 06, 2003, 11:18:03 AM »
Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon - that would settle the score
Whoever found it first
Would be sure to do their worst -
They always had before...

Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation - always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick -
But this was something more...

The big bang - took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
the end was begun - it would hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots - try to hold it back
Fools try to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say

Imagine a place where it all began
They gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys -
More than they bargained for...

Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed for evermore...
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Offline Sixpence

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Excellent read Hiroshima/Nagasaki
« Reply #31 on: August 06, 2003, 01:20:53 PM »
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Originally posted by LePaul
Frankly, I think we should've hit Tokyo, but they surrendered anyways.


It would seem redundant to drop an A bomb on a city we just burnt to the ground,
"My grandaddy always told me, "There are three things that'll put a good man down: Losin' a good woman, eatin' bad possum, or eatin' good possum."" - Holden McGroin

(and I still say he wasn't trying to spell possum!)

Offline muckmaw

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Re: Manhattan Project" words by Neil Peart - Rush
« Reply #32 on: August 06, 2003, 01:54:10 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Yeager
Imagine a time when it all began
In the dying days of a war
A weapon - that would settle the score
Whoever found it first
Would be sure to do their worst -
They always had before...

Imagine a man where it all began
A scientist pacing the floor
In each nation - always eager to explore
To build the best big stick
To turn the winning trick -
But this was something more...

The big bang - took and shook the world
Shot down the rising sun
the end was begun - it would hit everyone
When the chain reaction was done
The big shots - try to hold it back
Fools try to wish it away
The hopeful depend on a world without end
Whatever the hopeless may say

Imagine a place where it all began
They gathered from across the land
To work in the secrecy of the desert sand
All of the brightest boys
To play with the biggest toys -
More than they bargained for...

Imagine a man when it all began
The pilot of "Enola Gay"
Flying out of the shockwave on that August day
All the powers that be, and the course of history,
Would be changed for evermore...


Good quote, Yeager.

Too bad rush sucks...not as much as hippies, but it sucks nonetheless.:D