60th Anniversary of A-Bomb

Talking head Brian Williams talks with one of the last three surviving members of the Enola Gay crew: Dropping the bomb that ended the war.

...But Dutch and his fellow crew members will have none of the controversy surrounding the bomb. They point out that the firebombing of Japanese cities earlier in the war killed four times as many people.

Williams: You told me the story about one photograph from the war that always kind of catches you — the Japanese soldier returning to his city that’s been destroyed. Do you have remorse for what happened? How do you deal with that in your mind?

Van Kirk: No, I do not have remorse. I pity the people who were there. I always think of it as of being — the dropping of the atom bomb was an act of war to end the war.

And you should not feel any other way, Van Kirk.

It was an act of war to end the war. Plain and simple.

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