The Enola Gay represents the effort it took for the United States to defeat Japan. As one North Carolina man said, "He also owed his life to the atomic bomb, because if his future father had died in an invasion of Japan, he, the son, would never have been conceived." (Linenthal 137). The interlocutor then argued that "the bomb saved not only the lives of thousands of American soldiers who might have perished in the invasion had it taken place, but also the lives of all the children they fathered by the rest, and now probably their grandchildren. and even 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 have potentially died. continue the