National World War I Museum in Kansas City

Peter_Suciu

Peter_Suciu

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I flew out to Kansas City for the day this past Tuesday to visit the National World War I Museum. It made for a VERY LONG day, as I left my house at 5:30am, flew to KC via Chicago, arrived at the museum around noon, had lunch (see the menu in my photo essay), was given a tour, took time to marvel at the displays and then returned home. Interesting sidenote, on my flight from Chicago to Detroit there were two National Guard soldiers returning home and I thought it was interesting that on their right sleeves they had the 1st Marine Division patches. They explained that they had been active duty Marines and retired and got the bump up in the NG. Never saw an "Army" officer with a "USMC" patch before!

Anyway, here is my complete photo essay (click the images for a larger view):
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Great museum. The curator, Doran Cart was at SOS last year perhaps he will be again. Gus and I were recently lamenting that this is a perfect place for a stopover if you are going West after SOS. Problem is that the museum is closed on Mondays which would be the perfect day to stop there. The Western Front Association had their national symposium there in 2010. Then with the merger it moved out to San Francisco this year– The topics were not really in my interest view so we skipped it this year. Now that they have a joint World War I Historical Association I believe they are moving back to the museum for 2012. I certainly hope so!
 
Doran took me around and gave me the tour. He is a great guy and really loves his museum. That has to be a great job!
 
Peter_Suciu said:
Doran took me around and gave me the tour. He is a great guy and really loves his museum. That has to be a great job!
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How much does he have to pay to have this job?
 
...and if you make it to K.C., be sure to look me up. I live just ten minutes from the museum and always enjoy going back.

Chip
 
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