Another post about my visit to Quantico/Frederickburg, VA Here's a shot of one of the exhibits in the National Museum of the Marine Corps. The life size exhibit is in the main hall when you enter the museum. It represent the 2nd Marine Division landing at Tarawa Nov 1943.

I'll start this blog by sharing with you a bit of my trip to Fredericksburg, VA in Nov 2009 to visit my daughter and her husband at their new home the weekend they moved in. While there I got to visit Gretchen at work at the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico and view the objects the Artist Precervation Group have recently paid to conserve. artistpreservationgroup.com All 5 of these objects are blades belonging to famous Marines from the 19th century and are scheduled to be exhibited in the museums newest gallery opening next summer. The photo shows Gretchen and I examining the Presentation Sword belonging to Marine Lt.Presley OBannon, given to him by the Commonwealth of Virgina, in recognition of his participaion in the capture of Derne, Tripoli in 1805. This event became immortalized in the first stanza of the Marine Corps Hymn "From the Halls of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli".