Thank God For The Atom Bomb
In the essay Thank God For The Atom Bomb by Paul Fussell, the author pointed out the advantages of dropping the two atom bombs during World War II based on his personal experiences as a soldier in the front lines. He also attacked other writers who opposed the use of the Atom Bomb for their lack of understanding of the war. Though I also had no experience in the war before, I do strongly feel that it was necessary to drop the atom bombs in order to end World War II, because otherwise, my father might never had been able to live to adulthood and I might never had been born.My father was born in Hong Kong during the World War II period. He was born in the year of 1944, one year before the Japanese surrendered and left the city of Hong Kong. As my grandmother and other elders in my family used to tell me, the Japanese seized controls of Hong Kong in the year of 1941 and had stayed there for three years and eight months. Those three years and eight months, as my grandmother recalled, was the darkest days of her lives. When the Japanese first started to occupy in Hong Kong, they decided to block all transportations to Hong Kong and therefore had cut off the chain of food supplies. Prices of rice and meat rose at rocket speed
From that I learned that war itself was nothing but cruelty and misery, it should be avoided whenever possible. My grandfather had already died from a minor disease because of the lack of medical care during Japanese occupation. Some of them managed to pretend they were prostitutes already, since the Japanese would consider them as "unclean". To avoid being captured, young females, such as my grandmother, had to shave their head and rub dirt over their faces to pretend they were boys or beggars. Streets were filled with corpses of people dying from starvation, and living people were struggling to survive by tearing off pieces of meat from the corpses for food and money. One of my grandmother's best friends was unfortunately captured and she committed suicide first night after she was put into service at the prostitution house. As the author of Thank God For The Atom Bomb mentioned near the end of his essay, the atom bombs were not dropped to punish the Japanese, but to end the war conclusively, to end the agony of all the people that were involved in the war, in the shortest time possible. Many people wanted to strike back, but they were too afraid because once the Japanese placed the accusation of anti-fascist over anybody, they and their whole family would be doomed to execution. If the German was defeated much earlier, without such a powerful allies, the Japanese might never raged their troops over other countries and the misery of my grandmother's lives might be prevented. That is why I believe the atom bomb was definitely necessary during World War II, and thank god to it, I am alive today. It might sound terribly selfish to some people for me to agree on the dropping of atom bombs, because it had wiped out so many people in Japan it was widely consider as a morally unjustified action. For all sides in a war have their own reason and justification to fight and it is too difficult to tell which side is more righteous and justify than the other, the only thing that could be universally true to all people is that cruelty should be stopped and misery should be ended. All of those prostitutions were captured and forced to be in service by the Japanese. My father was already nine months old at that time and weighed less than twenty pounds.
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