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...unfortunate that the leaders weelect to progressively reform our system and to fight for their beliefs often do not display the fortitude or vision necessary to lead our nation. The Democrats do not exhibit the moral strength necessary to wage a war for America's soul, to prevent Gingrich and his cronies from legislating cultural repression. If the Democrats believe they can regain public support by drafting watered down versions of Republican proposals, they may be in for an even greater shock...
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...
...those who become indignant at the mere mention of this exhibit would do well to pay a visit to the Holocaust Memorial. Our own hands, it would seem, are not so clean...