First, they argued, it is an important piece of history, good or bad, and it should be up to the public to decide its true value. On the other hand, many people felt that the plane should be displayed for many reasons. They felt that it would be in bad taste to display an instrument of such destruction. On one hand, people felt that the plane should be scrapped and forgotten because it was used in the massacre of many people. But until we wanted to display the plane to the public, we hadn’t considered the peoples on the receiving end of that bomb. At the time of its use the American public viewed it, for the most part, as the heroic vessel that dropped the “end of war” bomb. This aircraft carries with it not only profound history, but also great conflict. The need for a board to decide how this aircraft would be displayed (if at all) is obvious. The Enola Gay is the aircraft that was used by the United States military to drop Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In the article the author gives his personal account of how the Enola Gay would be displayed in a museum after he was asked to serve on a board that would be making the decision.
The article “Anatomy of a controversy” is written by Edward T.
