What is it about seeing things? I mean, seeing the real thing? Pictured above is the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber that was exactly like a thousand other B-29 bombers that rolled off assemby lines all over the country sixty-five years ago. With my interest in aviation, I've seen a half dozen of them in different museums around the country.But his one's different. In August of 1945, this plane, this very one, flew over Japan, and dropped a single bomb that killed 100,000 people. A single man flipped a single switch, and all those lives ended. And now the plane is displayed for all to see, as it should be. But why is it different to look at this one, this real one? I don't know.
It just is.
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