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Originally Posted by MarineHawk
BTW: Wasn't it you who recommended the Marine Corps Museum? "The little guy" (hereinafter "TLG" - somewhere between 6 months and 20 years old) and I went today and had a great time. In addition to the great exhibits, the gift shop has some pretty cool toys I can pretend to buy for TLG (Am-track, M-1 Abrams models, big Corsair toy). TLG got one of these for Christmas - http://www.airflowinc.net/corsair.htm - so, he liked the two Corsairs there.
We've gone to the much-nearer-to-us Udvar-Hazy Air & Space Museum, which is awesome, about 30 times (really, it's only about 10 minutes away, and we have a season pass). I like how the A&S Museum has the no-knife symbol on the front door, and only a McD inside; but the USMC Museum actually SELLS knives in the gift shop, sells beer in the cafe, and has a bar inside. Marines know how to run a museum. |
The museum rocks doesn't it!! My father-in-law is one of the "founders" and I was able to go to the black tie event the night before it opened, with John Glenn and some other famous people, and tour it then.
We then went to the dedication the next day where we were about 10 rows deep watching W and the others speak. It was a pretty cool event! The exhibits rock and the quotes engraved in the ring are phenomenol, especially considering most were from Army brass!
-Matt