I think the day is coming when the only thing they will teach kids about WWII are:
The Soviet Union won the war on their own, with little help from us
Dresden
The Internment of Japanese Citizens
Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
“I think the day is coming when the only thing they will teach kids about WWII are:
The Soviet Union won the war on their own, with little help from us
Dresden
The Internment of Japanese Citizens
Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
We’re farther down that path than most can imagine. Already.
In 1994, it was revealed that the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum was about to complete its decades-long restoration of the B-29 Enola Gay, from which the Hiroshima bomb was dropped. All was to be revealed in a special 1995 exhibit, as part of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Some brave soul leaked the exhibit “script” to some veterans’ groups.
An unvarnished reading of the script gave the distinct impression that the average historical illiterate viewing the exhibit would come away with the distinct conclusion that it had been very unfair and racist, for the United States to start the war, by means of unprovoked sneak attacks with atomic bombs, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Reaction from veterans’ groups was strong, and prompt. Officials at the Smithsonian dissembled, delayed, lied, and tried to cover things up. Congressional inquiries were launched.
In late 1994 and early 1995, academics and media outlets rushed to the aid of then-NASM director Dr Martin Harwit and his curating staff. Academic talking heads appeared on special news reports, supporting the anti-nuke, anti-military revisionist view. Especially condescending were the latter-day “experts,” who acknowledged that it was “understandable” that WWII veterans might have “strong feelings” about the issue, but they simply didn’t know what they were talking about.
Spearheaded by the Air Force Association, a coalition of veterans groups got the exhibit corrected before its official opening date. Director Harwit resigned in May 1995; he never acknowledged that he and his minions had done anything wrong, nor even ahistoric nor misinformed. Liberals across the nation wailed in dismay, sniveling about the great unwashed masses frightening scholars into silence.
Leftist revisionists accepted their defeat with relative grace. Then their talking-head TV stars launched straightaway into heaping praise on NASM and legions of anti-nuke folks, for politeness and tolerance, in giving way to the veterans’ “whims” about the war. Learned opinions were advanced, that the towering intellects at NASM and in professorial posts nationwide, had caved in to political correctness (!), in giving way to a “special interest group.”
A few talking heads stroked their chins on camera, and pointed out that in a few short years the veterans would be gone. Then the Left/Progressive “professional historians” would have their way: the only story heard would be their Left revisionist one.