Face coverings and social distancing are required and museum staff will be working to continually clean and sanitize surfaces. Museum officials announced that strict safety protocols have been put in place to keep visitors and staff from potentially spreading the virus. “I can’t tell you how many times visitors have told us, ‘Thank you! I now understand what my husband/wife/father/mother/brother/sister (fill in the blank) went through,’ or ‘This is the first time we’ve ever heard these stories from him/her.’” and world history as seen through the eyes of Marines and some just to see the weapons or the Iwo Jima flag,” Adams said. “Some to connect with their past, some to better understand what their veteran loved one experienced, some to experience U.S. Many of the museum’s visitors come for many reasons, Adams said. One lady returns each year and lays flowers because she can’t yet bring herself to go to New York.” In previous years, when those items were on temporary display in our exit corridor many people would visit on 9/11 to pay their respects. “We have a piece of rubble from the Pentagon and an I-beam from the World Trade Centers. “That section speaks to the events of 9/11 and the Corps' involvement,” Gwenn Adams, public affairs chief for the Marine Corps Museum, said in a Thursday email to Marine Corps Times.
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