Enola Gay

[joeluke]

Wouldn't the Japanese be offended at hearing that song during the opening ceremony?

[jomifl]

How would they know?

[joeluke]

Oh right yeah, sorry I forgot that song was only released in the UK

[Mick-Talbot]

If anything I thought it might upset the Yanks.

[ummmm]

Why would they be offended? It's not a song in support of Enola Gay.

[NoMercy]

Joe... Did your brain leave a forwarding address?

[joeluke]

So the title Enola Gay is insignificant to the Japanese?

[ummmm]

Who said that?

[jomifl]

I'm English and I didn't hear Enola Gay mentioned so how many Japanese would?

[ummmm]

It was played, briefly.

[joeluke]

No one who is Japanese has ever heard of OMD of course

[MarkRae]

> I didn't hear Enola Gay mentioned

The song's introduction was played but stopped just before its opening line...

[Hopkirk]

Well I think the Queen's helicopter flight with James Bond was to a WW2 film theme - I think it was 633 Squadron.

[Mick-Talbot]

But why would it. Upset the Japanese ?

[jno]

that last dance routine seemed to start off from Empire of the Sun

[Hopkirk]

The aircraft that bomber Hiroshima was called Enola Gay, I think after the pilot's wife.

[ummmm]

I think his Mother.

[4getmenot]

it didnt even get to the words

[Hopkirk]

You're right, Ummmm: (Wiki)

Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel (later Brigadier General) Paul Tibbets. On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused extensive destruction.

[NoMercy]

It was his mother.

[MarkRae]

And, if it had, they would have been:

"Enola Gay you should have stayed at home yesterday"