Eliot and Eric, you need to go to New Orleans and visit the National WW2 Museum. It started out as The D-Day Museum but has grown to large campus encompassing almost 3 city blocks and 7 buildings of exhibits and multi media expositions, not to mention monthly special events memorializing all aspects of the war.
Eliot and Eric, you need to go to New Orleans and visit the National WW2 Museum. It started out as The D-Day Museum but has grown to large campus encompassing almost 3 city blocks and 7 buildings of exhibits and multi media expositions, not to mention monthly special events memorializing all aspects of the war.
After listening to your discussion of how autocrats work to distort history and shape the narrative to meet their own needs, I do hope that our current autocratic government doesn’t wake up one day and decide to shut down this museum, or change their exhibits, the way they’re attempting to do with The Smithsonian. One of the best things about the National WW2 Museum is how they honor the memory and the achievements of both African Americans and women who served in the military (an entire exposition on the women pilots who flew during the war is fascinating; several of them signed up after their husbands had been shot down flying in Europe). Our current “leaders” seem determined to erase these facts and focus only on the efforts of white men. We need to mobilize and preserve our history, all of it.
Eliot and Eric, you need to go to New Orleans and visit the National WW2 Museum. It started out as The D-Day Museum but has grown to large campus encompassing almost 3 city blocks and 7 buildings of exhibits and multi media expositions, not to mention monthly special events memorializing all aspects of the war.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
After listening to your discussion of how autocrats work to distort history and shape the narrative to meet their own needs, I do hope that our current autocratic government doesn’t wake up one day and decide to shut down this museum, or change their exhibits, the way they’re attempting to do with The Smithsonian. One of the best things about the National WW2 Museum is how they honor the memory and the achievements of both African Americans and women who served in the military (an entire exposition on the women pilots who flew during the war is fascinating; several of them signed up after their husbands had been shot down flying in Europe). Our current “leaders” seem determined to erase these facts and focus only on the efforts of white men. We need to mobilize and preserve our history, all of it.