Ron Kaplan, an aviation artist who currently works for the National Aviation Hall of Fame, inadvertently joined the fray when he saw a TV news report about a decorative stamp that Vietnam veteran Gerry Newhouse had made in protest of the Postal Service proposed stamp's cancellation. The exhibit was eventually reworked and the aircraft displayed. Veterans and members of Congress felt the debate slandered the U.S.
The issue also emerged during a separate heated debate about the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's proposed exhibit of Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
