The Enola Gay represents the United States' effort to defeat Japan. As one North Carolina gentleman stated “that he also owed his life to the atomic bomb, for if his future father had died during an invasion of Japan, he, the son, would never have been conceived” (Linenthal 137) . The interlocutor further claimed that “the bomb saved not only the lives of countless thousands of American soldiers who might have died during the invasion, had it occurred, but also the lives of all the children they subsequently fathered, and by now presumably their grandchildren." and also great-grandchildren” (Linenthal 137). Although President Truman did not have the same foreign policy ideas as FDR, in the eyes of veterans, the president's use of the atomic bomb not only saved the lives of many Americans, but also many Japanese who could potentially have die. continuing the