What is the author's viewpoint in this excerpt? Read the excerpt from "Bone Detective," by Lorraine

Jean Hopping.

The Hunley recovery team planned to display Diane's

casts in a museum that was about to be built. But did the

casts belong in a public exhibit? Some people objected

to displaying soldiers' remains—even though they were

plastic replicas. Diane saw nothing wrong with it. In fact,

she had no qualms about showing the real bones.

"If people want to really learn about the soldiers," she

said, "you have to show the bones. The bone is a record

of a person's life, especially the last part-the

circumstances of death."

How and why did the Hunley sink? What can we learn

about the lives-and deaths-of its ill-fated crew?

Scientists will likely be investigating the answers for

years to come, thanks in part to Diane's casts.

The author disagrees with Diane France and her

dec