A review from a friend:
***** and I went to the WW2 museum in New Orleans. Brand new, big, still expanding, expensive and boring. The Germans and Japanese were bad; Roosevelt was good; it was all very sad.
Nothing about the Hitler Stalin pact. Nothing about the role the CP played to keep us neutral, until Uncle Joe got attacked. And Roosevelt’s concentration camps? The American people did it, not Roosevelt’s executive order (funny how that works).
It was shallow, not much to look at (the captions and film shorts looked like they were written for Sesame Street), and relentlessly politically correct.
I usually think I will spend an hour or two in a museum, and end up spending the whole day; this time, we payed parking for the whole day, and left after two hours.
Not recommended.But, we had dinner in the Neon Pig restaurant in Tupelo. Best hamburger in the world!
Well, glad he enjoyed the burger.
I disagree completely. The museum is both interesting and informative. I did not feel assaulted by in-your-face liberal politics, unlike in the once great Smithsonian.
It is not surprising. The creation of the exhibit was probably contracted out to one of the companies that makes the touring exhibitions that all the museums get and they all are left wing because they have to market their products to the people who run the museums.
Gettysburg has been turned over to a bunch that dumbed the museum down to History Channel levels. Very disappointing compared to my first visit.
I distilled from David Hackworth’s “About Face” that the modern tactics on infantry (or tanks even) are based on passing and no-passing zones on 2-lane highways.
Hackworth writes about the dumb, high-casualty way of frontal assault, which he complains was still taught in the Vietnam War era in contrast with the smart, economy-of-force (war is still a dangerous business where your own guys get killed) of concealment, maneuver, and indirect fire against entrenched defenders.
I am not going to reread the whole thing to find this, but I am thinking Hackworth was saying that in walking the Gettysburg battlefield, even the pool-table-flat field across which General Pickett commanded his disastrous charge offered concealment that the Confederates didn’t use?
I believe the concealment Hackworth is talking about is that of the no-passing zone where oncoming cars are hidden by a slight rise in the topography. Even flat parts of the country have such no-passing zones. The knack to being an effective infantry commander is to “read” such concealment where the no-passing zones are not pre-marked with double yellow lines?