"Save the Monitor Collection " Topic

"A Washington Post article reported today that the Monitor Lab at the Mariners' Museum will shut down due to a lack of Federal funding. The Mariners' Museum was Congressionally designated to maintain the Monitor artifacts since 1987. It currently holds her turret, two cannons, propeller, and steam engine.

This news comes as a shock to many in the museum world. The recent burial of two of her sailors who went down with the ship in December 1862 garnered worldwide attention in March of 2013.

That ship might not have meant much to the men of the Virginia when they first saw it steaming into battle the morning of 8 March 1862. They mocked it. It was mocked on both sides. Some called it a "cheesebox on a raft," or a "tin can on a shingle." Yet that seemingly insignificant object went on to change the course of naval history forever. Tested in battle. Upheld by a tradition of honor, courage, and commitment lasting to this day. For every man and woman who wears a uniform, you are carrying the torch once held by forty-nine brave officers and men, sixteen of which paid the ultimate sacrifice nine months later in a storm off the North Carolina Coast…"
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Armand

That is a really interesting page – thanks for the link! I'll be reading that all night I expect.