B-17

Some of you may or may not know this but my dad was in the military for a good portion of his life. He did serve in Vietnam but by the time I was born he was no longer active duty but was in the reserves so he just had to "play Navy" on the weekends and for a few weeks training here and there so we weren't the military brat family that moved around from base to base all the time. But from his experiences and stories my siblings and I have always been able to experience things that not all kids our age have been able to and have had a knowledge base outside the scope of the normal.

So on Saturday (yes in the crazy hot heat) we drove to the old airforce base  and got to visit a WWWII era fully restored B17. It was pretty cool. If you had $425 dollars you could even take a ride in it.

It was pretty cool to see some WWWII veterans there talking about their stories and the days when they actually flew missions. As my dad was taking an inside tour of the plane, my brother and I were discussing how sad it is that more people are age, 1-don't get to experience things like this because they don't know, and 2- we talked about how sad it is that such an amazing place with such a story to tell like the museum is in such bad shape and having problems with funding and innovative ways to keep the public interested. For just a few bucks you can learn so much from our local museum, don't let this history be forgotten. Ask questions, take an initiative to learn about the history of our nation and the men and women who helped keep our freedom. If you don't ask questions you'll never know the history.

I encourage everyone to make the visit to the muesum at least once, it's not fancy by any means but we need to keep it in our minds and not forget here is the museum http://www.aeromuseum.org/ and here is more information about the B17 restoration and the restoration http://www.gulfcoastwing.org/ it took more than $500,000 (all donated, they recieve no government funding) and 7 and 1/2 years to restore it to working condition.