[Milsurplus] D-Day Museum Looted

Thu Sep 8 09:25:51 EDT 2005

Hi Dave,

>From the reports I've been reading in the Interdictor blog, and from the
Google Maps recent satellite images, the Museum is in the area of the city
that remained dry and I was hoping someone would have remained behind to
guard it or that the vandals would have ignored it.  I guess we'll see.

It has always been a question in my mind - whether it is better to place a
large collection of anything precious in one place so knowledgeable people
can preserve,  protect and display it for the rest of us to see and
appreciate it, or whether in the ultimate it may be better to have small
pockets of materials so that one disaster cannot destroy any appreciable
percentage of it.  In this day of easily available imaging technology
perhaps we all (museums and individuals) should take the time to scan our
rare documents and photos to .pdf or other text/image files and to
digitally photograph (distant and macro) all of our valued collectables and
then place copies of the information off site or better yet into the hands
of others with similar interests to help insure against their loss to the
world.  That way at least images of the past will survive.  Certainly
insurance policies will not help very much in replacing that which is
essentially irreplaceable at any price or in any reasonable time frame.

I just bought a new camera with excellent resolution and very close macro
focus and soon I should have high speed scanning to .pdf available to me...
so I guess it's time for me to put my thoughts into action.

73,

Clare Owens  N2RJB

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There's a story coming out of New Orleans that the
D-Day Museum- home of very many artifacts unique
in all the world and irreplaceable- has been looted
and savagely vandalized, the irreplaceable
records, letters and photos destroyed.
Let us pray this is just a rumor.
Dave S.

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