Atomic Bomb re-enactment dropped from Ohio Air Show

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BY DAN SEWELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A popular southwest Ohio air show has canceled plans to stage a re-enactment of the devastating World War II atomic bomb attack on Japan after protests, officials said Thursday.

Dayton Air Show spokeswoman Brenda Kerfoot said the June 22-23 event at Dayton International Airport will keep a planned "Great Wall of Fire" pyrotechnic show but not as an event meant to re-enact the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima. The B-29 plane "Fifi," similar to the Enola Gay B-29 bomber used to attack Japan, will remain in the show but in a separate role.

Air show officials said the re-enactment was meant to highlight a historic event that helped end the war and save lives that would have been lost if the war had been prolonged.

"We've taken it as more of an educational show," Kerfoot said. "The wording that we used probably wasn't the best."

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[Bonobo]

1. Stay classy, America.

[Supersedeas]

3. Stunning

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Japan was ready to surrender by May 1945

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Japan had tried to make overtures about surrender through the USSR, with which it had a(n ostensibly) non-agression pact but which, unbeknownst to Japan, had actually agreed at Yalta to join in the war against Japan in return for the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin. So the USSR had no incentive to shorten the war against Japan, and, not surprisingly, declared war on Japan after the first atomic bomb was dropped. Then it launched a 2-month invasion in which it took the Kuriles, southern Sakhalin, and some smaller Japanese islands.

[arcane1]

6. It's a shameful act in history, follwed by the other, equally shameful act on Nagasaki

[neverforget]

4. Stunning stupidity

[hrmjustin]

5. I never understood the celebration of war.

[RKP5637]

7. It a period of time most would probably like to forget than to celebrate. Brains

are often hard to come by these days ...

[Mojorabbit]

8. WTH is wrong with people? nt