Enola Gay Damaged at Air & Space Museum Opening

If it were up to me, a life sentence without hope of parole would be too
good for this jerk. To damage an irreplaceable aircraft, and a piece of
history, is absolutely unconscionable.

Not to mention the risk of killing someone with a glass bottle thrown
from an overhead walkway.

(There was no paint on the B-29, but it was dinged.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:GKjEb.593526$Fm2.545217@attbi_s04...
I'm surprised no one has brought up this travesty.

For those who don't know, the Enola Gay -- beautifully refurbished and now
on display at the new Udvar-Hazy facility of the National Air & Space
Museum -- was damaged by some nut case from Ohio who threw something at the
plane and dented it during a protest against the atomic bombing of Japan.

If it were up to me, a life sentence without hope of parole would be too
good for this jerk. To damage an irreplaceable aircraft, and a piece of
history, is absolutely unconscionable.

Margy, how bad is it?


Would you react the same way if a refurbished Boeing 767 and a model
of the world trade center was on display at the Afghan museum of
history? Although the Hiroshima bombing was necessary to end the war,
it is not something we should be proud of and display at a national
museum.

"Andy News" wrote in message
om...
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:GKjEb.593526$Fm2.545217@attbi_s04...
I'm surprised no one has brought up this travesty.

For those who don't know, the Enola Gay -- beautifully refurbished and
now
on display at the new Udvar-Hazy facility of the National Air & Space
Museum -- was damaged by some nut case from Ohio who threw something at
the
plane and dented it during a protest against the atomic bombing of
Japan.

If it were up to me, a life sentence without hope of parole would be too
good for this jerk. To damage an irreplaceable aircraft, and a piece of
history, is absolutely unconscionable.

Margy, how bad is it?


Would you react the same way if a refurbished Boeing 767 and a model
of the world trade center was on display at the Afghan museum of
history? Although the Hiroshima bombing was necessary to end the war,
it is not something we should be proud of and display at a national
museum.

Except that we are proud of it and what it did to end the war. Why should
we not be proud of it? The Japs started the war and when we developed the
technology to end it we did. It is a part of our proud history. If someone
doesn't like the display the simple solution is............don't go to the
museum.

And why not? Plenty of Japanese go visit the USS Arizona.

--
Kevin McCue
KRYN
'47 Luscombe 8E
Rans S-17 (for sale)




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("Andy News" wrote)
Would you react the same way if a refurbished Boeing 767 and a model
of the world trade center was on display at the Afghan museum of
history? Although the Hiroshima bombing was necessary to end the war,
it is not something we should be proud of and display at a national
museum.


If those models(?) were at an Afghan museum, that would be fine by me.

I'd like to see the exhibit room set up as a 25 year timeline. The beginning
part of the timeline would start as a wide line on the floor, then it would
go up the wall, cuts across the corner of the ceiling, then comes back down
a different wall, and back onto the floor - stopping (painted like an giant
arrow) in front of a door marked, "Tomorrow in Afghanistan." Something fun
like that for the kids. :-)

If museums should only display things of national pride, where do we put the
Civil Rights exhibit from the Birmingham Alabama museum? How about American
Indian
artifacts and history? I say we leave out all references to Indians from
about ...maybe ...1825 on.

The Enola Gay is history. Sputnik is history. Lindbergh's plane is history.
A Jap Zero is history, An Me-262 is history.

--
Montblack
http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif

The Enola Gay is history. Sputnik is history. Lindbergh's plane is history.
A Jap Zero is history, An Me-262 is history.

And the Japanese (we aren't supposed to say Jap any more) Zero is
indeed on display at NASM, downtown if not at Udvar-Hazy.

Indeed, enemy aircraft have always been strong draws at aviation
museums, and not just in this country.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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"Andy News" wrote in message
om...
| "Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:GKjEb.593526$Fm2.545217@attbi_s04...
| I'm surprised no one has brought up this travesty.
|
| For those who don't know, the Enola Gay -- beautifully refurbished and
now
| on display at the new Udvar-Hazy facility of the National Air & Space
| Museum -- was damaged by some nut case from Ohio who threw something at
the
| plane and dented it during a protest against the atomic bombing of
Japan.
|
| If it were up to me, a life sentence without hope of parole would be too
| good for this jerk. To damage an irreplaceable aircraft, and a piece of
| history, is absolutely unconscionable.
|
| Margy, how bad is it?
|
|
| Would you react the same way if a refurbished Boeing 767 and a model
| of the world trade center was on display at the Afghan museum of
| history? Although the Hiroshima bombing was necessary to end the war,
| it is not something we should be proud of and display at a national
| museum.

Ah, yes. The old 'moral equivalence' argument. Dropping an atomic bomb on
Hiroshima to end more than ten years of the most horrible war in history is
somehow morally equivalent to the world trade center attack.

Makes about as much sense as the PETA argument that eating a chicken is
morally the same as killing a human.

You are an idiot.