Each exhibit had a blurb that
wouldn't even fill your basic 3-by-5 inch index card, along with a small
number of statistics. I, for one, would have liked more information

You can probably thank the protesters both left and right for this.
NASM got so badly burned in 1994 for its 50th anniversary script for
Enola Gay that the new director evidently made a command decision:
just the facts! Planes are mechanical objects! Planes don't kill
people!

all the best -- Dan Ford
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