Where are all the posts?

This blog was about the time I spent volunteering in the restoration division at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The blog originally lived at AOL Journals but - - AOL was a little late with the whole blogging thing and they didn't have all the capabilities that other sites such as Yahoo 360, MySpace or Facebook had. They decided to eliminate the journal feature. Soooooo those of us with blogs there had the option to move our blog over here to Blogspot. Since I had already done that with my Yahoo 360 blog -- I decided, "Sure, why not."

Well, my work life seems to follow me home and I got some crazy error when doing the download of blog entries - - so none of them published. Its a bit annoying. They are sitting in my "Post Manager" if that is what it is called. I am able to open them and read them but haven't figured out how to get them published. I don't really have the time to figure it out either. So, as long as I can still read what I wrote, that is all that is important. I have used these entries to help me get my hard copy scrapbooks up-to-date.

In the future, I may re-publish some of these entries to Scuttlebuttfuzz.

Special Event with CVBT

Just got back from volunteering at a special event at the Museum for the Central Virginia Battlefields Trust. I got assigned to the Lightening II flight simulator (it is finally operational). But this is not what I am going to write about tonight.

Retired General Richard B. Myers, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was in attendance. He was given a complimentary ride - - and since I always have a camera on me, I was asked to take a picture of him on the simulator. So I did - - but also asked if I could have one taken with him.

I must say, he drew quite a crowd at the simulator. When told which aircraft it was, he removed his jacket like a man getting ready for a fight and he jumped right in -- and finally coaxed a guest into riding as his gunner. The brave guest was a current active duty Air Force Colonel, and bomber pilot. During the 2.5 minute ride, General Myer put the simulator in a barrel roll. That drew and lot of pleased ooohs and ahhhs from the crowd -- especially since the simulator rotates in a complete 360 degree roll. After the ride, General Myers chatted with his gunner for a bit. And yes, I took pictures of the guest in the simulator with his camera too.

You never know who you might meet at the museum and you know, I find that many of these high ranking and famous people that visit are really down to earth and very friendly.

And for the museum - - good thing I always have a camera.

Tun Tavern

The National Museum of the Marine Corps has a full service mess hall (they promise the food is better than what those of you in the military may remember) as well as a recreated Tun Tavern.

Tun Tavern, as Marine Corps lore has it, is where the Marine Corps was born - - on November 10, 1775.

NMMC's Tun Tavern can seat about 40 people and will serve colonial style food along with Anheuser-Busch beverages. Anheuser-Busch and Pepsi Cola gave large donationts to the museum - - so give them a big OOORAH! for that!

The mess hall will not server beer - - but Pepsi. There is a nice view out the windows overlooking the walkway entrance and there are some amazing photos on the wall - - all mess hall themed.

I'm a Coca-Cola girl so I'm a bit disappointed that I won't be able to grab a 'Coke'.

30 Sept pictures. These are proof positive that I would not have done well in the military. Our directions were to not open any closed doors. The doors were closed - - but not locked - - so that means its o.k. to go in right??? Yep, I broke the rules 10 minutes after they were given - - and I dragged another person along with me. However, while we were inside some other folks also opened the closed doors. So - - we were not alone in our transgression.

Stay tuned for the Vietnam Gallery.

Evolution of the Leatherneck Gallery

I have so many pictures I don't even know where to start! Many of you have seen some of these already - - so bare with me. There are some new ones too. I wanted to show how the Leatherneck Gallery has changed since January. Keep coming back for more.