War Has No Limits Of War - 1724 Words

The Japanese s mouth glowed with huge gold-crowned teeth, and his captor wanted them. He put the point of his kabar [combat knife] on the base of a tooth and hit the handle with the palm of his hand. Because the Japanese was kicking his feet and thrashing about, the knife point glanced off the tooth and sank deeply into the victim s mouth. The Marine cursed him and with a slash cut his cheeks open to each ear. He put his foot on the sufferer s lower jaw and tried again. Blood poured out of the soldier s mouth. He made a gurgling noise and thrashed wildly. I shouted, â€Å"Put the man out of his misery.† All I got for an answer was a cussing out. Another Marine ran up, put a bullet in the enemy soldier s brain, and ended his agony. The†¦show more content†¦Society is completely unaware of the blood, gore, and true horrors that war brings leading them to become desensitized and accepting of war. Military advancements have shaped how war is fought today. Now that war can be fought by bombing enemies with drones thousands of miles away, face-to-face combat is not as present as before making war seem less gruesome to society. â€Å"World War II is considered to have been the largest and deadliest war in world history, killing 62 million people on the battlefield, in massive bombings of civilians in cities, and by genocide† (World War II 147). Many people believe that war only involves the soldiers fighting in the front-line. The harsh reality that society seems to dismiss is that thousands of innocent people have died because of war. â€Å"In World War II cities became the prime military targets of air and ground campaigns† (Roger W. Lotchin). World War II had been going on long enough and the United States had already lost thousands of lives (America at War: The War Ends in the Pacific). To avoid losing any more men and ending the war the United States decided to make the Atomic Bomb (America at War: The War Ends in the Pacific). †Å"Approved by Roosevelt, scientists working under military direction had devised a devastating bomb based on atomic fission† (Elbridge Colby). The goal of the Atomic Bomb was to get Japan to