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| Enola Gay Display to remain! VICTORY OVER TYRANNY! |
| 2003-11-12 |
| Tip to RightNation The director of the National Air and Space Museum yesterday rejected suggestions that the new display of the Enola Gay, the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, be altered to include information on the number of victims of the attack and a discussion of the politics of nuclear weapons. Gen. John R. "Jack" Dailey, the director of the museum, said he wasn’t changing his mind that the spare placard, which provides vital statistics of the plane and a brief description of its historic role, was correct. (Finally! Someone in Washington with some stones!) "To be accurate, fair and balanced, inclusion of casualty figures would require an overview of all casualties associated with the conflict, which would not be practical in this exhibit," Dailey said. Referring to an earlier exhibit of part of the plane, he said, "We are confident this approach, similar to one seen by nearly 4 million people, is the right one and, therefore, we have no plans to change the exhibit." (You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!) The organizers of a petition asking Dailey to expand the information about the historic plane said the museum was squandering an opportunity. (To pander to yet ANOTHER left wing whacko group!) "I was disappointed by the Smithsonian response," said Peter J. Kuznick, a history professor at American University, who organized the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy. "I see this as a missed opportunity to educate the American people. Nuclear policy is a very important issue in our past and a critical issue now." (Peter, Peter, Peter You are the ONLY person who think this. The rest of us are concerned about TERRORISM!) The museum has placed the huge B-29 Superfortress, totally restored for the first time in 43 years, in its companion museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles International Airport. That facility, which will eventually house 200 aircraft, 135 spacecraft and related artifacts, is scheduled to open Dec. 15. The museum’s description of the Enola Gay centers on its technical statistics and explains the advancements it represented in military aircraft. It treats its most notorious mission this way: "On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day." I would add: “And saved countless lives on both sides because the Japanese Islands did not have to be invaded. God bless Col Tibbits and crew!" |
| Posted by:Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) |
| #3 I saw "Boxcar" at the Wright-Pat AF Museum. That whole museum is freakin' awesome for anyone interested in Mil aviation. I'm glad NASA didn't cave in to these loonies. Kuznick needs to find some other thing to use for his ajenda.......Next! |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-12 9:11:51 PM |
| #2 Heh, the victory isn't over tyranny, but STUPIDITY instead. Icing on the cake would be for someone to flip Kuznick a really big middle finger. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-12 8:59:18 PM |
| #1 No, he's right. Nuclear policy IS a major issue now. I want to know why the hell we haven't made it clear we WILL use them if someone pisses us off enough. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-12 7:32:43 PM |