in depth. I thought that I was just going to learn what my mom had told me,
but I was wrong. Way wrong! I learned a lot more than I had expected and wanted. At some
points it got pretty gruesome.I’ve learned so much about the war that it’ll
change my life in the future. It changed my thoughts about other people that have
different ways of living. I feel worse than I used to about homeless people
understanding what it might be like to be homeless.. I know that if I was a Jew in the
concentration camp, I would not like where I would be, but know that if anything happened
to me I would go to a better place. That’s probably how some of the Jews felt.
From my veteran, Larry Zeller, I’ve learned that he gave up many things to fight
for our country like not eating full meals and always working very hard. I think he did
something I wouldn’t be able to do, going so far away from home and going through all
that training. If I could choose some people to get a great award, I would choose him and
many other veterans.
I learned that Hitler started the war because he was greedy. He wanted to occupy all
the countries around him and take over the world. Japan felt the same way. When they
thought they could take over the US, they were wrong. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they
were in big trouble. After the U.S. had fought many, many times in Japan, they decided to
bomb Japan with the atomic bomb. First the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Japan didn’t
surrender so the U.S. bombed again in Nagasaki. Then they gave up and surrendered. While
all this was happening in the Pacific, over in Europe, we were beating Hitler. They
finally surrendered.
I feel the atomic bomb was needed to win the war. But I also feel bad. It killed
millions of people and the radiation stayed for a while giving birth defects. I also feel
Hitler was very wrong with what he did. He was evil. He had no right to kill innocent and
harmless people just because he didn’t like them. But now 50 years later, things are
better and I’m glad there hasn’t been a world war in my lifetime.
