Created for Empathy

It is obvious that the video about the atomic bomb shows the world that Americans now have serious remorse about the decision to murder an innocent city (or two). It is easy for us now to judge the government for making that choice and to judge the rest of the country who were proud to be Americans after winning the war. It doesn't take much thought to declare how awful it was that the United States obliterated two entire cities. However, I believe that the video was made partly so people now can understand what both our government and the Japanese citizens had to go through. I can't imagine facing the responsibility of deciding the fate of hundreds of thousands of people, both Americans and Japanese. Am I saying that they made the right decision? Or that I would have done the same thing too? No, not necessarily. That video, though, was created to make us realize what a different time it was back then. Not one of us knows what it must have felt like. And who are we to announce what we would have done instead? We cannot until we are truly faced with the same situation.