There are enough problems in life without us having to add other worries and sorrows by dredging up the past. However, I came upon a news story that reminded me of a quote from someone along the lines of: Those who don't learn from their past mistakes will be forever cursed to repeat them. If we don't dredge up history, analyze it with the clarity of hindsight, and learn from our mistakes, then what's the use?
On November 1, 2007 Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., retired Brigadier-General of the U.S. Army Air Corps, died at the age of 92 at his home in Columbus, Ohio.
Who was he you ask? Tibbets was the Pilot in Command of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that was used to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, killing approximately 140,000 people in one hit, this doesn't count those that died from the bomb dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later, or from the aftermath of both bombs. Tibbets was 30 years old when he flew that mission.
Sixty years after the bombing, Tibbets and the remaining crew members stated: "we have no regrets".
What were you doing when you were 30 years old, and have you learned from your mistakes?
The full article from the BBC is here.
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