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It's called revisionist history. (n/t)
Posted by boxcar on Mon Nov 03, 2003 06:58:59 AM
In reply top Smithsonian screws up display of the Enola Gay Again!!!!!!!! posted by John H on Mon Nov 03, 2003 03:30:35 AM
: Jeez, can't they ever get it right??????? After the botche
: d 1995 display of the Enola Gay, you would think the NASM
: would not screw around with history again. The protesters
: are partially right, I can't imagine displaying the Enola
: Gay without mentioning what she did.....Like it or not, sh
: e was the airplane to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima. The
: re's no hiding from that!!!!!! In doing so, the Enola Gay
: and Bock's Car saved the lives of perhaps up to one millio
: n Americans and Japanese that would have been killed in an
: invasion of Japan. As for it "not being a good idea to to
: ut the Enola Gay" as our Irag and Afgahnistan efforts cont
: inue...the B-29 being displayed and WWII have nothing to d
: o with those operations.
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: JH
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: (From Aero News.Net:
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: More Protests Over Smithsonian's Enola Gay Exhibit
: Mon, 03 Nov '03
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: Anti-Nukes Want Display Revised...Again
: "You wouldn't display a slave ship solely as a model of te
: chnological advancement," says David Nasaw, a cultural his
: torian at CUNY Graduate Center. "It would be offensive not
: to put it in context."
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: That's how protestors to the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smit
: hsonian see it, anyway. For that reason, more than 100 peo
: ple have signed a petition demanding changes to the B-29 e
: xhibit in Washington.
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: The New York Times reports the exhibit touts the Enola Gay
: as "the largest and most technologically advanced airplan
: e for its time," without noting that the particular aircra
: ft on display is the one that dropped the first atomic bom
: b on Hiroshima in 1945.
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: The aircraft piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets on the world's f
: irst nuclear strike is being shown at the Steven Udvar-Haz
: y Center near Dulles International Airport (VA). The placa
: rd in front of the display shows the B-29's dimensions, in
: formation on the aircraft's original purpose (to bomb Axis
: targets in Europe) and wording that the B-29 finally foun
: d its place in the war in the Pacific, not European theate
: r. It doesn't say anything about the August 6th mission ov
: er Japan.
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: It's not the first time the Smithsonian has been beset by
: complaints over the B-29. In 1994, war veterans criticized
: the content of material presented along with the Enola Ga
: y, saying it could be seen as American aggression instead
: of an effort to avoid the invasion of Japan.
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: Eventually, the Enola Gay, named for Tibbet's mother, was
: part of a smaller exhibit that went on display in 1995.
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: This time, petitioners say it's not a very good idea to to
: ut the Enola Gay as the United States flexes its military
: muscle in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. The Smithsonia
: n says there won't be any official comment on the petition
: until after it's presented.
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: FMI: www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy
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