Luke Maffia
Mrs. Lonergan
English 9A
11 October 2014
Hiroshima Final Essay After learning both sides about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, I support the the Americans in dropping the bombs. I believe that it needed to be done in order to end the war, and save lives, as crazy as that sounds. Paul Tibbets, captain of the Enola Gay, the plane that released the bomb on Hiroshima, says, “I knew when I got the assignment it was going to be an emotional thing, ... We had feelings, but we had to put them in the background. We knew it was going to kill people right and left. But my one driving interest was to do the best job I could so that we could end the killing as quickly as possible.” (thinkexist.com). The people who had the deciding factor on this decision knew that there were going to be a lot of deaths but they knew it needed to be done to do both of the countries good and pull themselves out of the war.…show more content… The last part translates from a Japanese expression to It can’t be helped, oh well, too bad. Father Kliensorge also agrees with her, by saying something similar to that in German. This is how I feel about the bomb, I felt that it was an act of war and that there was nothing that could be done about it. The only way the Japanese were going to surrender, and how to save lives, was by dropping the bomb. The way the Japanese culture is makes them act calmly about it, thinking that nothing could be done and hating war and not the Americans, which I thought deserved a lot of respect because if I was in that situation I would be blaming the Americans, not my country or the act of war. So, even if the Japanese didn’t like what the Americans did to their country, they blamed war as the reason for the dropping of the bombs, and if the Japanese didn’t blame them, then no one
