What I admire about the guy is that like millions of others he saw his duty and did it, and made no apologies for it. Historians and others do question the morality of the operation, and that's fine with me, too. But within the context of those times---so different from our own---he was assigned a job and did it in no different way than an infantryman pulling a trigger, a submariner releasing a torpedo, and a haberdasher from Missouri giving the order. "We" dropped the bomb.