National Museum of the Marine Corps

Uh-

At the Marine Corps Museum, yeah.

Yeah.

Which is gonna be a-

The Marine Corps Museum

... which is gonna be-

Yeah, they're gonna be like-

... an annex of the Marine Corps Museum.

You could throw me into the Library of Congress, the, uh, National Archives, and I'd probably find what I'm looking for, but you might have to send a search party in for me.

Whereas Tom is so at home in, uh, the Marine Corps Museum, which we spent a lot of time in for this book, uh, for instance, that he...

And I guess we split the research.

It's probably 70% him, 30% me, and then, uh, of course, I was joking about writing every other word.

I think it's, it's different than when you're, when you have constraints of a, of a business that you've, you've been doing a long time.

You know, I love taking my s- my sons, I have two boys, and we would often go out, being an ex-Marine, we'd often go to relatively nearby Marine Corps Museum, the National Marine Corps Museum, uh, which is a couple, you know, an hour or hour and a half away.

And, uh, we, you know, I'm there, I, I love to go once, once or twice a year, at least once or twice a year.

And, you know, we just perusing, um, the gift shop.

I really enjoyed the first volume of that book there.

I know when I went down to go visit the Marine Corps Museum, I saw a bunch of copies on the wall there.

And as soon as I recognized it, I ran over and grabbed a copy.

And it was definitely a very educational and informative read.

I know now.

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Anyway, so I didn't get a chance to do that, which really sucked.

Then I was going to hit the Museum of the Marine Corps, National Museum of the Marine Corps, but that's half hour outside of D.C., and We had to meet back in the Senate building to have dinner.

So we had, I mean lunch.

So we had lunch in the Senate building.