150 sign petition criticizing Enola Gay exhibition plan (barf 2 w/link to barf 1)

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[chance33_98]

150 sign petition criticizing Enola Gay exhibition plan

WASHINGTON — Nearly 150 scholars, writers and others have signed a petition criticizing the Smithsonian Institution's plans to exhibit the newly reassembled Enola Gay without mentioning the damage caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.

The petition will be sent to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on Wednesday asking it to change the way of exhibiting B-29 Superfortress bomber, American University Professor Peter Kuznick, the initiator of the petition, said Monday. (Kyodo News)

[chance33_98]

See also Enola Gay Protest Set for Dec 15 (BARF ALERT)

[Always Right]

WOw, 150 signitures. Clinton could usually get 4,000 experts from his pawns at universities to sign just about anything.

[Lunatic Fringe]

I do agree that the exhibit should probably mention the damage caused by the Enola Gay... X number of ships, munitions, and rifles destroyed, X number of Japanese kamikazes, etc.....

[chainsaw]

I think they should rename it the Enola Happy, or Jolly, or anything but Gay.

[ventana]

Probably some very interesting statistics could be pointed out RE: Lives saved, and infrastructure spared, on both sides by avoiding a protracted seige of the island.

And this would be a great place to teach young Americans the evolution of warfare that has lead, in their own time, to weapons systems that can target military assets with pinpoint accuracy, avoiding civilian casualities.

Finally, the point could be made beautifully here that America has never taken over a conquered country but instead has rebuilt them and set them on a new course.

What a country!

v.

[buffyt]

The bomb that ended the war and saved the world by chance?

Let's see, who attacked whom in WWII?????

[buffyt]

Your comments were just excellent~ Mind if I borrow them? I always need new ammo to battle the dimwitocrats with~

[McBuff]

I agree with the 150 petitioners. We should absolutely openly, evangelically testify to the living burning hell the USA can rain down in an instant. In other words, F**k with us fellas and have some of this. . .you want some of this, North Korea? Huh? You want some of this? What are you lookin at Iran? You want some of this? Syria? Saudi Arabia?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'm with you on the name brother. But F the 150 protestors.

[Holly_P]

"The bomb that ended the war and saved the world by chance?"


... One decision that Truman made that was correct. He was a Zell Miller kind of democrat in that decision. Or more accurately. Sen. Miller is a Truman kind of Dem in that respect.

[NetValue]

"American University Professor Peter Kuznick, the initiator of the petition,....."

American University indeed!

[bmwcyle]

Please have assemble in the desert in NV.

[joesnuffy]

"Planes Don't Kill People"...

Better that than millions of American kids killed trying to land and then occupy an Island(s) of well armed guerrilla fighters.....a lesson we may still have to re-learn

[Cloud William]

Nearly 150 scholars, writers and others have signed a petition criticizing the Smithsonian Institution's plans to exhibit the newly reassembled Enola Gay without mentioning the damage caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II.

They want the damage to be described? Okay, we could do a "veterans experiences in their own words" side exhibit. The National D-Day Museum in New Orleans has used that idea to good effect (at the urging of the late Stephen Ambrose, I believe).

My father-in-law was a crewman aboard a Navy patrol bomber (PBM - like the PBY Catalina but larger). They flew over Hiroshima (the airspace was supposed to be off-limits, but many pilots evidently found an excuse to wander close enough for a look) and my father-in-law took some photographs of the devastation.

His contribution to the exhibit would probably sound something like: "We really knocked that (expletive deleted) flat as a pancake!"

[longtermmemmory]

The smithsonian is infested with PC wacko's. Even the natural science museum redid the animal exhibits in order to avoid sexism by showing the male animals in dominant rolls. It comes from decades of democrats giving favortism to their cronies in the leftwing university system. A commie ivory tower refugee is not only going to have no regard for america, they will have a nasty antiamerican spin to everything american.

[norton]

Also remember that the Smithsonian's original plan for the Enola Gay was precisely what these 'scholars' are asking for.

They wanted to show almost nothing BUT the destruction and to cast it as an atrocity against innocents rather than a means to end a war that the Japanese started.

On the other hand; I see nothing wrong with pointing out to visitors the fact that we remain capable of laying waste to those who trespass against us.

Finally; until the Smithsonian undergoes a complete reorgainzation they are wasting their time sending me those constant offers to subscribe.