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Last week Smithsonian secretary Michael Heyman did exactly that. No doubt alarmed by the fact that 81 Congressmen had written in protest and that hearings were being planned on this exhibit and perhaps other trash-America exhibits at Smithsonian museums, he announced that Air and Space would display the Enola Gay with only a simple explanation of its mission and a video memoir of the crew...
...attention to Japanese depredations and American sacrifice, that was not corrupted by such revisionist nonsense as the suggestion that we might not have dropped the bomb on Nazi Germany because Germans are white. The issue is not that veterans cannot stand analysis but that the analysis offered by the Smithsonian was a disgrace...
Yielding to critics, the Smithsonian Institution agreed to scale back-to the point of minimalism-its forthcoming exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the atom bombing of Hiroshima. Angry veterans groups and members of Congress had charged that the exhibit incorrectly and inappropriately questioned the necessity of dropping the Bomb...
...Smithsonian Nukes Exhibit...
...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 Prime Minister...