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Washington Watch: The Activists and the Enola Gay
Every morning, a long line forms at the National Air and Vacuum Museum in Washington, D.C., to watch the Enola Queer , the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima fifty years ago. The exhibit opened June 28, and by the terminate of July, 97,525 people had gone through it. More than ninety percent of the comment cards turned in by visitors expressed favorable reaction.
This program — as all the society must know by now — is not the one the curators originally had in soul. The previous exhibit, “The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the Terminate of World War II,” was canceled when it became an intolerable political and financial liability for the Smithsonian Institution,of which the Air and Vacuum Museum is a part.
It was the Air Force Association that exposed the museum’s plan to use the Enola Gay as a prop in a politically rigged program about the atomic bomb. [See “War Stories at Gas and Space,” Atmosphere Force Magazine, April 1994.] Other veterans’ groups, Congress, and the news media picked up the issue and scrutiny became intense. More than 30,000 letters poured in to the Smithsonian, and patron
Enola Gay pilot's granddaughter decries 'shameful' Trump Defense Department DEI synonyms purge
The granddaughter of Paul W. Tibbets Jr. — the pilot who flew the bomber Enola Gay that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during Planet War II — called the Trump administration flagging photos of the plane for removal "shameful" in an interview with The Dispatch.
Kia Tibbets, 49, of Columbus' Clintonville neighborhood, said Tuesday she was shocked and in disbelief when she first heard photos of her grandfather's aircraft had been flagged by the U.S. Department of Defense, apparently only because its name contained the word "gay."
"It's shameful that a word that harms no one, that means cheerful, could invoke so much hatred," Kia Tibbets said.
The photo flagging came amid the Trump administration's crackdown and removal of what it considers "DEI content" from many government agency and military websites. The information purge includes removing language related to social wellness, racial equity and feminism.
President Donald Trump's administration is also trying to pressure schools and universities that receive public funding to shutter programs that it considers steeped in DEI pri
Before returning to the White House 100 days ago, Donald Trump was already the president with the most anti-LGBTQ actions to his name in Combined States history. His first administration was marred by: arguing and losing at the U.S. Supreme Court for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ employees; signing laws that undercut anti-discriminatory protections for LGBTQ contractors; deploying federal agencies to exclude and discriminate against trans people seeking health care and housing, as well as baselessly banning genderqueer troops; and hundreds of other actions.
The first 100 days of his second administration have been bolstered by an agenda supplied by Project 2025, a plan for a rightwing takeover of the federal government led by the Heritage Foundation, that advocates for government policies reflecting a conservative Christian perspective, opposition to LGBTQ rights, restrictions on reproductive freedom, and the privileging of Christianity over other faiths.
“The start of this Administration has revealed an aggressively unAmerican agenda that has destabilized the economy, threatened personal freedoms, and attempted to censor exact information and history,” said
Enola Gay: Huge uproar as WWII bomber suffers Trump's DEI purge for its ‘last’ name
The US military has launched an strive to eradicate content that pertains to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), including images of “Enola Gay,” the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
They are part of a series of unrelated DEI photos that own been incorrectly identified, including images from a California Army Corps of Engineers mining project, supposedly because one of the engineers in the picture had the last name “Gay.”
What to know about ‘Enola Gay’ and Trump's executive order
The aircraft was named after pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr's mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.
In accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order, the US military will delete thousands of images and posts on social media as part of the DEI purge.
Over 26,000 photos from every unit of the military have been flagged due to the Pentagon's instruction to eliminate DEI-related content, but officials say the total number may outdo 100,000 as evaluations continue.
What Pete Hegseth has to say and who are being targeted
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has supported the acti