I'm not much of a war buff, and I hated history in school, but I
find a lot of it pretty interesting now. (esp good-quality TV
documentaries)

Here's a good interview with the pilot who dropped the bomb on
Hiroshima 57 years ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,769634,00.html

:
> PT: [...] So we're coming down. We get to that point where I say
> "one second" and by the time I'd got that second out of my mouth
> the airplane had lurched, because 10,000lbs had come out of the
> front. I'm in this turn now, tight as I can get it, that helps
> me hold my altitude and helps me hold my airspeed and everything
> else all the way round. When I level out, the nose is a little
> bit high and as I look up there the whole sky is lit up in the
> prettiest blues and pinks I've ever seen in my life. It was just
> great.

Sometimes I envy elderly people because they seem to be able to
say whatever they want without worrying about offending anyone.

discussion of the article on metafilter also has interesting bits:
http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/18951

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