Yup, yup. Happens everyday by those you'd LEAST expect--CONSERVATIVE VETERANS. Okay, I exaggerate (but only in terms of the group doing the censoring)--I'm sure they don't censor everything, but I sure do know that they censor enough.
Case in point--the Smithsonian Museum, 1995. The Enola Gay incident. Shame, shame, shame.
In 1945, the Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the 1st Atomic Bombs ever, the first on Hiroshima and resulted in the death of approxiamtely 200,000 people (mostly civilians). It also dropped the 2nd bomb, landing on Nagasaki, of which several more hundred thousand civilians died. You see, the Veterans (who I love dearly, most of the time) don't want you to know that. When the Smithsonian tried to show these numbers and what it's REALLY like to have a 8,900lb dropped on your city where 69% of buildings were completely destroyed and only 7% were severely damaged (with those numbers, it means, "if it was hit, it was totalled"). Yeah, hiding under your desk isn't gonna save you--you'd better hope for a direct hit because if it's just close enough to not kill you, you're going to wish that you were dead. The Japanese deserve to have their pain shared with the world--especially when it's the truth. What would we say if the Afghans deleted 9-11 from their history?
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