World War II Museum in New Orleans

The National World War II Museum, based in New Orleans, has embarked on a fundraising campaign to raise $300 million to expand the facility over five acres on two city blocks. This will create 300,000 square feet of new space. The original site began as the National D-Day Museum in 2000. For more information see www. NationalWW2Museum.org.

Students Study with Veterans

The day after the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Newnan High School students were given what is rapidly becoming a rare opportunity. Instead of hunching over history books at their desks and viewing run-of-the-mill textbook photos commemorating the event, the students were able to study Pearl Harbor survivor Dixie Harris' personal photographs, as well as newspaper clippings from 1941. Harris, Georgia State Chairman of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Inc., was one of many veterans spanning historic eras from World War II and Korea to Vietnam and Operation Iraqi Freedom who visited the school. See the full article at www.Times-Herald.com.