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...LONG WAY FROM DICK AND JANE TO HIROSHIMA. YET check out the books at your kid's school library, and you will see how thoroughly we have traversed that distance. Curriculum "relevance" used to be the battle cry of bearded university students. It has now made its way into the picture books of seven-year-olds...
...most notorious of these, the one that in 1980 helped launch the whole trend toward social realism for kids, is Hiroshima No Pika, a shockingly graphic picture book about the dropping of the atom bomb and the horrible deaths that ensued. The book is not coy about who caused the suffering...
Might our children be told amid their sobs how this war began? My Hiroshima, another searing picture-book memoir, is typical. It has this single sentence of historical context: "In the winter of my fourth year at school, a big war started...
...history is a difficult task these days, filled with experts, historians and special interests. Recently war veterans pressured the Smithsonian Institution to change its presentation of the Enola Gay. The original script for that World War II exhibition, they said, implied that the use of an atomic weapon on Hiroshima was overkill for a blameless enemy...
...HIROSHIMA: A History Lesson Aware of lingering bitterness over their nation's role in World War II, Japanese are disappointed but not surprised that U.S. veterans' groups have forced the downscaling of a controversial exhibition commemorating the end of the conflict. After months of heated debate, officials of Washington's Smithsonian Institution last week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While...