I knew that I should hate the war, not him,” Kondo told The Associated Press. “He was not a monster he was just another human being. Kondo saw tears well in Lewis' eyes, and her hatred melted away. “Looking down from thousands of feet over Hiroshima, all I could think of was, ‘God, what have we done?’” he said. While Kondo, who survived the bombing as an infant, was wondering if she would act on her fantasy and punch him, the host asked Lewis how he felt after dropping the bomb. Robert Lewis, co-pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the bomb. Kondo stared in hatred at another guest: Capt. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, one of six survivors profiled in John Hersey’s book “Hiroshima.” Ten-year-old Kondo appeared on an American TV show called “This is Your Life” that was featuring her father, Rev. She was determined to find the person who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the person that caused the suffering and the terrible burns she saw on the faces of girls at her father’s church - and then square off and give them a punch.
