Paul Tibbets, Little Boy - Hiroshima, Monday August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM

"My mother. She was Enola Gay Haggard before she married my dad, and my dad never supported me with the flying - he hated airplanes and motorcycles.

"When I told them I was going to leave college and go fly planes in the army air corps, my dad said, 'Well, I've sent you through school, bought you automobiles, given you money to run around with the girls, but from here on, you're on your own. If you want to go kill yourself, go ahead, I don't give a damn.'

"Then Mom just quietly said, 'Paul, if you want to go fly airplanes, you're going to be all right.' And that was that."