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Why did the Smithsonian abandon the Enola Gay exhibit as it was originally intended?

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The planned exhibition was replaced by a simple display of the fuselage of Enola Gay with little historical context. ... Numerous historians and scholars, many from the "revisionist" side of the debate over the use of the atomic bombs, protested the exhibit in a letter to the Secretary of the Smithsonian on July 31, 1995.

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