Brigadier General Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. passed away on November 1st. Most people have no idea who this man was. He was a part of the catalyst that brought about Japan's surrender in WWII. He was the pilot of the B-29 that bore his mother's name...the Enola Gay. On August 6th, 1945, he took off from Tinian Island in the Marianas Islands and completed his mission of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Brig. Gen. Tibbets requested in his will that he have no funeral service or headstone for fear of having protesters desecrate his headstone or use it as a platform for anti-nuclear protests. Brigadier General Tibbets was 92 years old.