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8/31/94 -- Garner, Washington Times: [Mushroom cloud rising from the NASM]

9/2/94 -- Paine, Washington Times: "I think the Smithsonian's getting carried away with this historical revisionism"

9/25/94 -- Beattie, Patriot News: "The Mushroom Anti-defamation Society wants us to come up with a different term for the cloud"

9/30/94 -- Bok, The Oregonian: "You Smithsonian people are nuts"

10/7/94 -- Paine, Washington Times: "It bombed with the critics, so the Smithsonian has agreed to re-edit"

11/94 -- Danziger, Christian Science Monitor: "This famous airplane was involved in an unpleasant situation"

11/7/94 -- Cullum, Washington Times: "Self-flagellation, this must be one of the Puritans"

11/28/94 -- Tinsley, Washington Times: "This controversy over the Smithsonian's "End of World War Two" exhibit is really heating up!"

1/25/95 -- Benson, Arizona Republic: "First we obliterated Hiroshima and vaporized 140,000 Japanese non-combatants"

1/28/95 -- Kansas City Star: "We've rewritten the war with Japan. Now I suggest that we rewrite the war with Germany from the Nazi point of view"

1/31/95 -- Der, Houston Post: [Smithsonian official riding the bomb a la Dr. Strangelove]

2/1/95 -- Auth, Philadelphia Inquirer: "It's all they can handle"

2/1/95 -- De Rosier, Mobile Register: "Whew, sure am glad to see that gone!"

2/1/95 -- Kollinger, Washington Times: "Smithsonian in sight, Captain"

2/2/95 -- Willis, San Jose Mercury News: [Smithsonian man parachuting out of the plane]

2/3/95 -- MacNelly, Daily Times: "Not the way I remember it"

2/12/95 -- Payne, Knoxville News Sentinel: "Listen up imperialst lackeys. I'm from the Smithsonian"

2/13/95 -- McLeod, Air Force Times: "Forget the Smithsonian rewrite for the Enola Gay exhibit"

2/18/95 -- Locker, Chicago Tribune: "So the Smithsonian attempted to portray revisionist history. What's the big deal?"

7/6/95 -- Wasserman, Boston Globe: "Can you believe it?! -- The U.N. censored the book commemorating its 50th anniversary"

7/16/95 --Thompson, Washington Times: "Think of all the people who died because of this plane"