The one point that I agree with the veterans on is the balance of the exhibit. This event is important not only to American history, but to world history, and it is a story that should be told form all sides. Again, I can appreciate the difficulty of this decision, but I don’t think it is something that should be covered up. If you try and cover up history in any way it makes you look selfish and petty.
While I can understand that veterans would be worried about how they are going to be viewed in later years, especially in relation to the horrifying destruction wrought in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I don’t believe that they should be allowed to decide what people are allowed to know about the event. It’s history.” After reading about some of the concerns of different veteran groups my opinion hasn’t changed at all.
When I first learned of the controversy surrounding the proposed exhibit of the Enola Gay my first thought was “give me a break.
