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This is the big mission."
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Karnes and hundreds of other men from the 509th stood along the flight line as Tibbets and the Enola Gay took off at 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 6, a warm, tropical night.
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"Where is the authority?"
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Three B-29s had gone ahead to check the weather at Hiroshima and two other possible bomb sites.
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Two other B-29s left in two-minute intervals after Tibbets so their crews could take photos and drop devices to measure radiation and other effects of the bomb.
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Tibbets got the word only an hour from Hiroshima that the city's weather was clear.
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As they approached, Tibbets braced for Japanese anti-aircraft fire.
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None came.
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Early in the flight, the crew had inserted a plug of uranium into the 9,000-pound bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy.
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Ninety seconds from the bomb drop, Tibbets put the plane on auto-pilot.
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At 8:15 a.m. Hiroshima time, the pneumatic bomb-bay doors opened and "Little Boy," equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, fell out.
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The Enola Gay climbed, and Tibbets fought to turn the plane in the air-bending, 155-degree the crews had been practicing off Tinian for months.
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He pushed off the dark glasses because he couldn't see to fly.
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"Who says this?"
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"Who says this?" another commanding officer asked Karnes.
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A minute later, the shock wave hit.
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More shocking was the city of Hiroshima, which was on fire and bubbling like tar.
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"We were all appalled,"
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Back on Tinian, Karnes had gone to bed.
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But he didn't sleep long.
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Someone woke him to say Gen. Hap Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forcesin Washington, was on the phone and asking for him.
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Each time, Karnes said what he had to: "Call Air Force headquarters if you don't believe me."
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Arnold told Karnes, "Tibbets is going to be landing in three to four hours, and I want to give him the Distinguished Service Cross, and it is your job to write up the explanation."
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"Tibbets is going to be landing in three to four hours, and I want to give him the Distinguished Service Cross, and it is your job to write up the explanation."
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"I had no idea how you wrote up an award.
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I'd never written up any award,"
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I'd never written up any award," Karnes said.
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"So I got all of my sergeants out, and they're all digging through their (books.)"
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"Call Air Force headquarters if you don't believe me."
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When an unsuspecting Tibbets descended from the Enola Gay on Tinian, he barely managed to palm his pipe as Gen. Carl Spaatz, commander of the Strategic Air Forces, stepped forward to pin the medal on his bomb flight coveralls.
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Karnes, like the hundreds of others gathered along the flight line, was jubilant.
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He knew the war would soon be over and he would be heading home.
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A yearof secrecy and hard work wasover.
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Today, Karnes is frustrated that some of his fellow historians, the ones he calls "revisionists," question the wisdom and morality of the bombings.
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“I will help you find your Rachel.
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I have to warn you, though, you won’t like what I have to tell you.”
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Something in his tone couldn’t be disbelieved.
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“Tell me anyway.
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If she’s in trouble, I want to find her, wherever she is.”
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My driver took a deep breath.
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As he did, his neck stretched in a strange way and I noticed several thin lines, like wrinkles, running across the sides of his neck.
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“Nathan,” he began in the way that people speak when they start a long and difficult explanation,
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This person, like me, is not a member of traditional society.
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You see, Nathan, there is …separate from your society …oh, damn it.
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I’ve never had to give this conversation before.
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Come on, I have something to show you.”
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With that, he made a sharp turn onto a side street that I hadn’t noticed before.
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We drove between slummy housing and storefronts so decayed that I couldn’t tell whether they were abandoned.
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My driver turned again next to an old warehouse that I might have been in once when Mitch took us to a rave in sophomore year.
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In front of a few houses, there were cars parked, but there were almost none on the streets.
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Their bumpers looked ready to drop off, and their paint was half smog.
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I got a strange feeling that we weren’t supposed to be driving here.
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“Hey,”
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“Hey,” I said, “are you sure that we should be going this way?
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“are you sure that we should be going this way?
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I mean – ”
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“Just ignore that,”
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“You’ll be used to the sensation in a moment.”
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That just unnerved me more.
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As we kept driving, the anxiety grew more pronounced.
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My girlfriend Rachel and I would go to the clubs near our school.
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I noticed that there were some people on the street, people the same color as the soiled buildings.
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Someone standing just in the lip of an alley glared at me with gleaming eyes.
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“Is it really safe to leave the car …”
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he was already walking toward the squat, brick-windowed building we were parked next to.
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Glancing back at that gleaming glare, I decided that it might be safer to follow the driver than to wait with the car.
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I hopped out, ran after him, and reached him just as he was knocking on the door.
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Someone opened it a crack, then ushered us in.
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Sometimes we'd get word that people were gathering under one of the bridges, and we'd rush down to hit it before the cops broke it up.
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The ceiling was high and wooden, and I could see part of a DJ’s booth down the hall.
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It looked like we were in the back of a nightclub.
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Then I looked down and saw what had let us in.
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What up?”
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The hunchbacked being who let us in held out a scraggly paw for him to slap.
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“Nice, my man,”
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“Nice, my man,” he said as they clasped hands.
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“Who’s the freak?”
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“This is someone from Ivan’s family.
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Did I ever tell you about them?”
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“Yeah, one time, man, but you were pretty fucked up.
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What’s your problem, kid?”
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The hunchbacked man came up to my stomach.
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His skin was brown and stretched, like some diseased sapling’s bark.
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It pulled back around his fingertips, which bore things that might have been nails or claws.
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When he grinned, I saw that his teeth were sharp and small, like a hunting cat’s.
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Under matted hair, his eyes had slit pupils.
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Nepthys quickly answered for me.
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“Girlfriend troubles.
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She came down here with someone after a party, and I don’t think it was one of your average pixies.”
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“Bummer.
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So, what’s the cat look like?”
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He turned to me.
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Nepthys nodded: “It’s okay, you can trust him.
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“It’s okay, you can trust him.
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That’s why we came here.”
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It was easier to talk than to question.
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“I …I noticed him from across the room when I was looking around for Rachel.
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Boston is a strange place at night.
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He was standing right in front of some blue lights, so I couldn’t see him very well, but I noticed the way that the light set off his pale skin.
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