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This week, an extensive show at the Air and Space Museum commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was dramatically scaled down. Some eighty members of congress, together with the American Legion and other veterans' groups, attacked the exhibit, which explored the moral ambiguities of the atomic bombing of two major Japanese urban areas...
...veterans claimed that the exhibit portrayed the American forces as aggressors against a hapless Japanese nation, and radically underestimated the number of casualties the Americans would have sustained had they mounted a full scale invasion of Japan instead of dropping the bomb...
Veterans are outraged at the exhibit, and we must respect their outrage. A man who feels his life was spared because of the bomb does not want to hear an upstart historian (who was not even there) analyze the moral implications of Hiroshima. But who ought to craft our memory: soldiers or historians...
Walsworth notes that "three fourths of ourmoney ends up coming from the government." He says"big political stinks" over such controversies asthe up coming exhibit of the plane that bombedHiroshima in the Smithsonian Air and Space museumcould result in a reduction of cash flow to theCfA...
...delete controversial portions of a plannedexhibit featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, in a bow to pressure from outraged WWII veterans groups and their supporters in Congress. "We made an error," said Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman. The 100,000 square-foot exhibit revised downward the official estimate of the number of American lives saved by the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 63,000, from several hundred thousand. In addition, it focused on pictures and narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter Blute (R-Mass...