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Criticism Meets New Exhibit of Plane That Carried A-Bomb
Criticism Meets New Exhibit of Plane That Carried A-Bomb
(EXCERPT) By ELIZABETH OLSON ASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — When officials at the Smithsonian Institution unveiled a new home for the World War II bomber the Enola Gay in August, they had hoped to avoid the kind of controversy that had previously plagued efforts to exhibit the airplane that carried the first atomic bomb. Not likely. Now a group of scholars, writers, activists and others have signed a petition criticizing the exhibit for labeling the Enola Gay as "the largest and most technologically advanced airplane for its time" without mentioning that the Boeing B-29 dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. "You wouldn't display a slave ship solely as a model of technological advancement," said David Nasaw, a cultural historian at CUNY Graduate Center, and one of more than 100 signers of the petition. "It would be offensive not to put it in context." Peter J. Kuznick, the director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, who initiated the petition along with members of the antiwar group Peace Action, emphasized that they were not opposed to the display. "It is essential that the plane be displayed," Mr. Kuznick said, "but it must include discussions about the decision to drop the bomb." He said he and other signers hoped "to sit down with Smithsonian officials to see the seriousness of this... U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully reproducing copyrighted material. In abidance with our laws this report cannot be provided in its entirety. However, you can read it in full today, 02 Nov 2003, at the following URL. (COMBINE the following lines into your web browser.) The subject/content of this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of the distributing Library. This report is provided for your information and discussion. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/na...rint&position= --------------------------- Otis Willie Associate Librarian The American War Library http://www.americanwarlibrary.com |
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They were hauled over the coals
in 1995 for mentioning that Enola Gay DID drop the bomb. Cheers David |
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David Bromage wrote:
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They were hauled over the coals in 1995 for mentioning that Enola Gay DID drop the bomb. Nope, they were raked over the coals for doing the PC bit about dropping the bomb, which cast the US in the as simply being bloodthirsty. -- --Matthew Saroff _____ * For a succesful technology, * / o o \ * reality must take precedence over * ______|_____|_____ * public relations, for Nature * uuu U uuu * cannot be fooled." * * - Richard P. Feynman * |
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David Bromage wrote in message ...
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They were hauled over the coals in 1995 for mentioning that Enola Gay DID drop the bomb. No, they were hauled over the coals in 95 because they went well beyond mentioning that it "did" drop the bomb, and instead turned it into a pseudo-revisionist statement about the decision to drop the bomb. Veterans were not amused. Brooks Cheers David |
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They were hauled over the coals in 1995 for mentioning that Enola Gay DID drop the bomb. I don't know which is the nuttiest! * The critics for likening Enola Gay to a slave ship * NASM for neglecting to mention that it carried Little Boy * Me for getting upset about these clowns. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put CUB in subject line) see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. They were hauled over the coals in 1995 for mentioning that Enola Gay DID drop the bomb. I don't know which is the nuttiest! * The critics for likening Enola Gay to a slave ship * NASM for neglecting to mention that it carried Little Boy * Me for getting upset about these clowns. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put CUB in subject line) see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com on the trips to Japan I once visited Hiroshima and was really amazed by the people there. a really polite Japanese family hosted me for three days and i was utterly surprised when they asked me one night "why" we bombed their city. I tried to be as diplomatic as possible and answered "to save lives- both American and Japanese". you should have seen the look on their faces. what i said was practically incomprehensible to them. in Hiroshima there are many shrines dedicated to the victims of the Enola Gay and a strong sense of a Japanese version of "never again". i am not into rewriting history for the sake of making someone or a culture more comfotable, but experiencing Hiroshima did remind me of the humanity involved and how war is not glorious at all, no matter what the justification. the B-29 controversy is a sensitive issue and should be treated as such. The exhibit should mention the role the Enola Gay had in dropping the bomb because that is what the plane is known for, not some technological marvel. NASM should know better Jason |
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