What did you do in the war, grandma?

it was interesting to read while also thinking about Laurence reflection of the bombings to end the war, she was making the crafts and working with the blueprints and he was in the aircrafts waiting for the signal to drop the bombs, she was waiting to find out if the war was over if i had happened and he was up there watching it all come to an end. all the destruction she is conflicted about in the end was what he was witnessing first hand up in the sky. i was confused though about a few things. i thaught the whole reason she went to where she did to work becuase she wanted to be apart in ending the war. she wanted to do something. but then in the end when she says

"if he had asked me whether i would work very hard to help bring this horror into being, knowing it would shorten the war but put the world into jeopardy for all time, how would i have answered? i would have said no. with all due respect, sir how could such a things make a just end to our cause. and that is actually something i thought about when i was reading Laurence so that got my mind thinking more about the ethics of what happened.

i also liked how earlier she emphasized how amazing it would be for the war to be over and how life changing it would be to all Americans.

" i went to bed early and lay listening to the crickets and thinking about everyone coming home.... putting a balance in our lives that we hadn't known in years.

after reading the entire thing her conflict became clear in the end

i also like how in this piece it had a little bit of humor and how her and her friends interactions were included which definitely put me more in the "back at home" state of mind unlike in Laurence when i could sense the milital tone and the in the middle of the action theme appropriate obviously for Laurence writings.

i liked reading one after the other. gave me both sides of the situation. in the air and back at home perspectives.