Someone once asked about the Elsenborn picture.

[richvalle]

I was at Ft Knox for basic and scout training in 74 and again as a chaplain assistant 83-87, and I could never get enough of that place. Every free moment I had, what little there was, during school I spent there, and the last thing I did before leaving in 87 was to host the Louisville Corvair Club meeting at the museum and park nearby. I really was bummed out when I found out it was moving. I'm in Dayton, OH, and a good friend of mine now works as a civilian at the Human Resources Command at Knox so I thought I would get to see the place again when visiting him. Things just never work out the way we plan. On a positive note, with the loss of all the old wooden buildings that were still there in the 80s, the building known as the Whale is still there. The odd shaped building used to be part of the restoration facility for the museum and was built to train tank crews on getting into and out of LSTs, so it had a bow-shaped part on one end with the clam-shell doors to go with it. The one part of the museum I remember might still be there, that being the scale model of the gold vault used in the movie, Goldfinger. No sense in moving that to Ft Benning. Well, if your interested in planes, the Air Force Museum is growing again near Dayton and would probably be worth the trip, anyway. My son is a submariner stationed up at Great Lakes Navy Base, and he just started volunteering at the Museum of Science and Industry in the section with the WW2 U-boat. I'm hoping to get back up to visit with him and see that place.

Nice about your son! It's been years since we've been there... need to go again.