Are We About to Apologize for Hiroshima?

The son of the pilot who commanded the mission seems to think so:

The son of the U.S. Air Force pilot who dropped the first atomic bomb in the history of warfare says the Obama administration's decision to send a U.S. delegation to a ceremony in Japan to mark the 65th anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima is an "unsaid apology" and appears to be an attempt to "rewrite history."

Gene Tibbets, son of Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., says Friday's visit to Hiroshima by U.S. Ambassador John Roos is an act of contrition that his late father would never have approved.

"It's an unsaid apology," Tibbets, 66, told FoxNews.com from his home in Georgiana, Ala. "Why wouldn't it be? Why would [Roos] go? It doesn't make any sense.

"I know it's the anniversary, but I don't know what the hell they're trying to do. It needs to be left alone. The war is over."An apology for Hiroshima would be entirely in keeping with a president who was raised to hate the U.S. and who believes America is the source of the world's problems. It wouldn't surprise me a bit.

The photo above of the Enola Gay was taken by me during a trip to the National Air and Space Museum in 2005.