Fort Hood 1st Cavalry Museum Hit By Vandals

Courtesy photo Damaged helicopter Steven Draper,
director of the 1st Cavalry Division Museum,
posted this photo of one of the damaged
vehicles to the museum's facebook page.

Helicopters vandalized at 1st Cavalry Division Museum
Killeen Daily Herald
JC Jones
Herald staff writer
October 27, 2015

FORT HOOD — Military police are investigating after multiple vehicles on display outside the 1st Cavalry Division Museum were vandalized over the weekend.

Three helicopters were vandalized, including one with major damage, said Maj. John Miller, a 1st Cavalry Division public affairs officer.

“Military police investigators scrubbed down the crime scene and are conducting an investigation,” Miller said.

The damage was discovered Sunday afternoon by an on-duty staff sergeant walking the museum grounds.
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Largo Florida Military Museum Has "Family Funfest" for Memorial Day?

There are certain words that should never go together. Homeless and Veterans at the top of my list, but then again, Memorial Day and "Fundfest" are just as bad.

Military museum distributes veteran photos, introduces new exhibits
Tampa Bay Online
Howard Altman
May 12, 2015

JAY CONNER/STAFF U.S. Rep David Jolly holds a reptile from Croc Encounters at the Armed Forces History Museum in Largo. They were there to unveil new exhibits at the museum. The critter was there to promote the upcoming 7th annual Memorial Day Family Funfest on May 25.

One by one, the veterans or in some cases family members came to the front of the indoor Quonset hut at the Armed Forces History Museum and accepted black and white portraits.

Tampa photographer Ryan Joseph, who took the portraits in November, said his project was designed to “expose my generation and the generations that come after me to these heroes who came before us.”

There were three copies of each portrait, said U.S. Rep. David Jolly, the keynote speaker at an event to present not just the photographs, but also eight new exhibits at the already packed Largo museum.

One copy of each will hang in the Quonset hut. One will hang in Jolly’s Washington office and the veterans, and in some case their families, will also receive copies. Since the portraits were taken, two of the veterans — Bill Allen, an Army sergeant who was taken prisoner during the Korean War and Irving Zeider, an Army corporal who earned two Purple Heart medals during World War II — have since died.

Their families picked up their portraits. Gary Littrell, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics during the Vietnam War, said he doesn’t buy into the narrative of the woebegone Vietnam veteran. read more here

Glenn Miller "He gave his life when he didn't need to,"

Museum marks Glenn Miller's disappearance
Des Moines Register
Linh Ta
December 14, 2014

"He gave his life when he didn't need to," Yellin said. "The young people have to understand that they have to be up close and personal."

The museum displays items from musician Glenn Miller’s life and World War II service on Sunday.
(Photo: Linh Ta/The Register)

It's been 70 years since musician Glenn Miller disappeared over the English Channel during World War II, but even now, his music lives on.

On Sunday, the Glenn Miller Birthplace Museum in Clarinda remembered the disappearance of the Iowa native, and held a ceremony in honor of not only his musical contributions, but his contributions to the U.S. Army.

Miller, known for leading the Glenn Miller Orchestra to several top hits in the late 1930s and early 1940s, enlisted in the Army at age 38, despite making $15,000 to $20,000 a week in his musical career. After being denied at first because of his age, he was assigned to the Army Air Forces, and used his music to boost troops' morale.

"He felt that the biggest impact he could have was joining the service," said Rick Finch, director of the museum. "I think that we sometimes forget that service now."
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Retired Marine 1st Sgt. James Barnett turned home into a museum

'Most Marine wives will not tolerate their husband doing something like this'
Roseburg News-Review
By CARISA CEGAVSKE
Published: Mar 15, 2014

ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Retired 1st Sgt. James Barnett has turned his Roseburg home into a museum of Marine Corps artifacts. He has a collection of clear boxes filled with soil collected from every Marine base in the world and all the major World War II battles.

Marine Museum In this Feb. 27, 2014 photo, Jim Barnett stands in his Roseburg, Ore. home surrounded by items he has collected over the years traveling as a first sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. Barnett, 80, entered the Marine Corps when he was 17 years old, shortly after the Korean War broke out.
(AP Photo/The News-Review, Michael Sullivan)

Barnett has also collected more than 900 challenge coins, traditional medallions bearing the insignia of military organizations; Marine recruiting posters; drinking glasses; framed quotations about the Marines; Marine bulldogs and just about any other type of memorabilia imaginable.

Barnett, 80, entered the Marine Corps when he was 17 years old, shortly after the Korean War broke out.

"Four of us decided we were going to single-handedly win the Korean War, so we joined up together and went to boot camp in San Diego," he said.

He was too young for combat and was assigned to guard duty at a Naval brig in San Diego.

Barnett served 20 years in the Marines and is a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. He also served as a drill instructor at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and as a Marine recruiter. After retiring, he helped his wife with her custom drapery business and they retired to Roseburg 26 years ago.

During the Vietnam War, he met Maj. Gen. Marion Carl, ace pilot for the Marines. Carl was highly decorated and posthumously initiated into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.

After Carl was murdered in his Glide home in 1998, Barnett spearheaded a campaign to create a memorial to Carl at the Roseburg Regional Airport. The campaign drew $35,000 in donations and attention from across the country. The memorial includes a bronze likeness of the general. Barnett assured that the cement foundation contained soil from each of the battlegrounds over which Carl fought.
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