Comments on: Activists drop banner against drones at Smithsonian http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/02/activists-drop-banner-against-drones-at-smithsonian/ People-Powered News and Analysis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:33:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nathan Schneider http://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/02/activists-drop-banner-against-drones-at-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 Nathan Schneider Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:40:30 +0000 http://wagingnonviolence.org/?p=3577#comment-2518 Wow, this is great to see. I used to go to that museum every weekend when I was a kid. I remember vividly when my mother (who worked at the Smithsonian) was vitally involved in the controversy about how to represent the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima (I got to sit in the bomb bay before the exhibit opened!). It's good to see that museum become the site of impassioned social debate that it deserves to be. Those weapons are really remarkable products of human imagination that deserve to be in a museum, and absolutely nowhere else. Wow, this is great to see. I used to go to that museum every weekend when I was a kid. I remember vividly when my mother (who worked at the Smithsonian) was vitally involved in the controversy about how to represent the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima (I got to sit in the bomb bay before the exhibit opened!). It’s good to see that museum become the site of impassioned social debate that it deserves to be.

Those weapons are really remarkable products of human imagination that deserve to be in a museum, and absolutely nowhere else.

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