1994 enola gay exhibit
Peter Blute R-Mass and two dozen other members of Congress express "concern and dismay." The Congressional letter to Adams. "It is a partisan interpretation of what happened and historical revisionism at its worst." "Thank God for the atomic bomb!" "It's also a slap in the face to all Americans." "Veterans are deeply concerned that schoolchildren and their parents born after World War II will leave the National Air and Space Museum with a distorted and incorrect understanding of this important part of our country's history." "The National Air and Space Museum was not established to be a center for political, philosophical, sociological or ethnic discourse.".
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The full story "is our responsibility as a national museum in a democracy predicated on an informed citizenry." Correll and veterans reply to Harwit: "The Mission That Ended the War," Washington Post, 08/14/94, C9. "Enola Gay: A Nation's, and a Museum's, Dilemma," by Martin Harwit, Washington Post, 08/07/94, C9. Director Harwit defends the exhibit again and is answered.
The anniversary will be an "occasion of an intense debate" over the morality of using atomic bombs. "Loading the Guns of August 1995," Gar Alperovitz, Chicago Tribune, 08/09/94, 15. Better Hiroshima than a special telegram delivered at the door."
"The annual bleeding-heart derby of one-sided tunnel-vision history revisionists has once again begun." Because my life was probably saved by bombing Hiroshima, I celebrate that event every year." "At least Hiroshima was no Pearl Harbor!. the exhibit doesn't go quite far enough," but should display an American Ground Zero where we'd find "atomic soldiers and nuclear workers, medical guinea pigs and down-winders." "A-Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima," Los Angeles Times, 08/09/94. "The truth is America has never come to terms with the atomic bombings. "A War Anniversary Hard to Celebrate," by Greg Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 08/03/94, B7. Headlines blare "NASM Script Offensive" and "An Insult to Our Veterans.". The World War II Times devotes a large portion of its August-September issue to blasting the exhibit. Director Harwit defends the exhibit, identifying the intended audience as largely "those generations of Americans too young to remember how the war ended." "If we cannot mount a thoroughly documented exhibition, then we have little hope of learning from these epochal events." "Enola Gay and a Nation's Memories," by Martin Harwit, Air & Space, August/September 1994: 18-21. "FullText" links provide a connection to electronic or print copies provided by the Lehigh Libraries and other services, such as electronic abstracts and interlibrary loan requesting.