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. 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. The Japanese had totally corrupted the economy of Hong Kong by closing down most of the factories and replaced the active currency with a new one. They had also opened over fifthteen prostitution houses across the city for their soldiers. All of those prostitutions were captured and forced to be in service by the Japanese. 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. Some of them managed to pretend they were prostit...