"Bjørnar" wrote in message ...
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Linda Terrell wrote:

Even if were to agree that the bombing of Hiroshima was wrong (I
don't know about today, but I know how I would have felt in 1945),
what does this have to do with the attack on the WTC? Does one wrong
justify another? The issue is that the Smithsonian's newest facility
it about aircraft history, not about the pros and cons of US military
action. The Enola Gay should be treated as other aircraft on display
without mention of the suffering and death caused by the bombings,
nor mention of the other side of the same argument.

I completely agree. The problem today is too many museum exhibits are
polticized.


The Enola Gay and what it represent is unique, it's not just
another B-29. It's not politics, or a battle of oppinions, an
unpresidented number of people died at the drop of a single, tiny bomb.

We have a responsibility to tell the story and provide the facts
whenever we can, when people come into the exhibition hall they
should be amply reminded of the horrible forces of a nuclear
weapon. To censor it out is an injustice IMO.


I agree, but that shouldn't be the main part of the exhibit. It's far
too grave and complex an issue to sum up with a written poster.
I think in some ways this Enola Gay exhibit is a reaction to the
Hiroshima exhibit some years ago which also neglected to put things in
context. In that cxhibit, Japan was victim, pure and simple. It didn't
explain what led to the war and why such drastic measures were taken,
justified or not.
It made it seem like poor hapless Japanese were nuked for no reason at
all.