US Bombings in Japan: The Injustice

This is a short feature article I wrote for our exams in Social Science. Since I have nothing better to do... I thought I might just share it... Pardon some grammatical flaws... I also made some minor revisions as to the original...

US Bombings in Japan: The Injustice

Upto this time, scholars are still debating over the injustice the bombs caused in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US did a very drastic move against the Japanese by bombing two major cities in Japan where many innocent people resided. It doesn't matter who started the bombing, and obviously it was the Japanese who first bombed Pearl Harbor which destroyed fleets of ships of the US Navy, but who was to blame? Who is to blame? The Japanese? who took the liberty of destroying the US Naval Army... or the Americans?, who only took revenge.

Yet, I can imagine the great impact if the bombs 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy' on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. People who survived to tell the tale talked about the horrified melting faces of people panicking and slowly deteriorating, the destruction if so much property, the heat enveloping them all, and the darkness that suddenly fell over them as though it were Judgment Day. Japan and United States really didn't think the consequences of their actions. They retreated dramstically, to save their pride and country, to the most unhuman moves. It was though bombing each others territories could resolve their issues. I think the fitting motto for them is 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'.

Now, the pain of them all has somewhat go away, but... there is still that thought... and feeling of anger that resides among both Americans and Japanese towards each other. But what more can they do? There is only way... to forgive and forget. Forgive each others faults and weaknesses. Forget the roots of the fight that occurred. All they can do now is to move on and focus on the development of their countries. I hope that there will never come a time when suppressed angers will once again resurface. Just maybe, history will not repeat itself.