Ever curious regarding the weirder aspects of reenacting, I once asked this question: "Does anyone have any first-hand information about a Hiroshima reenactment that once took place with a 500 pound sack of flour dropped from a bomber? This was told to me but I've never found any independent verification (which means "Urban Legend" to me)." I got a reply from one "KnightFlyr" at America Online, reproduced below. I might have suspected Rebs were behind it. - Jonah
"The event you are talking about was a Confederate Air Force Air Show in Harlingen, Germany a few years back. The show was ended with the B29 "Fifi" simulating the dropping of the bomb at Hiroshima by the Enola Gay. (The plane was flown by Gen. Paul Tibbets, the same pilot who flew the mission to Hiroshima.) It included a small ground charge which resulted in a small mushroom cloud. This caused an international incident, bringing diplomatic protests from Japan. Our liberal politicians and revisionist historians proceeded to kiss Japan's derriere with formal apologies while chastising and condemning the Confederate Air Force as a war-mongering extremist group. Neither the Japanese or the revisionist liberals mentioned the reenacted bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Confederate Air Force during the air show. (Funny how that was overlooked!) Since that time, bowing to pressure, the CAF does not do the bombing of Hiroshima anymore."