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January 13th 04, 01:33 AM
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Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone. Gordon, I love your sentiment. I've got a couple of museums as clients and they are working hard to get oral histories of veterans. They can only accept so many artifacts so those with a detailed history are intrinsicly more valuable. "This is dad's uniform and he served in the Marines during the Chosin withdrawl" is more valuable than a 1950's Marine uniform. Anyone interested in getting into veteran's registries please contact me. No, not associated with AWL. The group I'm working with closely is preserving the history of the 5 Sullivan brothers. MAH 
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January 13th 04, 05:45 AM
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I've got a couple of museums as clients and they
are working hard to get oral histories of veterans. They can only accept so many artifacts so those with a detailed history are intrinsicly more valuable. Our museum has hundreds of thousands of originaly photos, but we still manage to surprise ourselves on occasion - today, I found a 5x7 of an odd little biplane with a mid-1920s date stamp and the name "Plywood Special". The indistinct pilot was just warming the lil thing up to go for a flight. I handed the photo to the man that painstakingly digitizes the never ending stream of photos that get donated to us, and his jaw went slack - only a week ago, he had found and scanned a photo of the same aircraft, fifteen minutes later, after Charles Lindbergh crashed it! We compared the miniature US flag stuck in the wing brace wires and its a match; a previously unknown photo of our man Chas, just before he earned admittance to the Caterpiller Club. "This is dad's uniform and he served in the Marines during the Chosin withdrawl" is more valuable than a 1950's Marine uniform. What I hate is that every Luftwaffe hat becomes "Adolf Gallands" and every brown pair of riding boots gets claimed to have been Rommels. That part gets old.. Anyone interested in getting into veteran's registries please contact me. No, not associated with AWL. Good! Obviously  The group I'm working with closely is preserving the history of the 5 Sullivan brothers. Good on you. Five true heroes from America's past - definitely worth preserving. v/r Gordon ====(A+C==== USN SAR Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.
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