AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Knavey Nice...it always makes me wonder what other treasures are tucked away in closets that have yet to be discovered. You never know. At one Naval museum I worked (Bremmerton) we used to get boxes whenever someone cleaned out the basement. One day I received a photo book of sepia prints from the twenties that had belonged to someones grandfather. Besides some incredibly good war game shots , there were photo's of four pipers . When I checked the date of the photo's , then the destroyer's hull numbers , I realized that these photo's were taken the week before the same DD's went up on the rocks of Honda. Another box I was inventorying simply said "Naval Flags". When I looked at the very warn and dirty signal flags , I found nothing special, till I found a note that read "USS Pennsylvania, Dec.7, 1941. " I used to find stuff like that all the time that people were about to throw out. What do they do with that sort of stuff? That's the problem. At the Bremmerton Museum, I cataloged the stuff , made people aware of what we had, then prayed that someday we would have room to display it. The problem is modern museums don't like to display artifacts, they want hd displays , interactive games and gee-whiz tech-no-gadgets. Artifacts take time, preservation , space , and most of all, money. And most important of all, public awareness and public concern.
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