An interpretation of the cancellation of an exhibit.
SMITHSONIAN ENOLA GAY EXHIBIT FULL
The scaled-down display he said will not tell "the full story" of the atomic bomb, including the horrors of nuclear war as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. History and the culture wars: The case of the Smithsonian Institutions Enola Gay exhibition. Musil, director of policy and programs for Physicians for Social Responsibility, an anti-nuclear group based in Washington, criticized the Smithsonian decision.
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Detweiler said the American Legion will urge Congress to go ahead with the hearings. Blute is a member of that committee, which has jurisdiction over the Smithsonian Institution, supported chiefly by federal money. Spokesman Rob Gray said the congressman would confer with the chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee before deciding whether to continue to press for hearings on the process by which the exhibit was created. Heyman "has made a sound decision" in scuttling an exhibition he called a "politically correct diatribe." Peter Blute, the Massachusetts Republican who helped lead the congressional call for Mr. No glorification, no nonsense that they were trying to do before." Burr Bennett, a member of a group of B-29 veterans petitioning for what it calls "proper display of the Enola Gay" said the simpler display is "what we've been asking for all along. Until the doors open and we see the exhibit we're taking a wait-and-see attitude."
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Jack Giese, spokesman for the Air Force Association, a group of 180,000 members, said "we are encouraged but we are extremely cautious.