While it's fair to say that I'm now repaired and ready to be sent to work, Marg is still suffering and reports to the Regimental Aid Post daily. I think I can put my recovery down to the Vegemite I take daily which is a fine source of Vitamn B, but Marg is a tea drinker and that I regret, has its drawbacks.
Spent a little time today at the George Mason Regional Library in Annandale on Little River Turnpike. By our standards, this is a big facility with a very extensive range of volumes and subject matter. We were only able to spend about 3/4 of an hour there before it closed, but that was more than sufficient for me to note that the military history section was one that, while naturally focused on US accounts, deserved a second visit.
This is part way through the major holiday season across the nation and the children's activities in this and other Fairfax County libraries, would certainly give parents opportunites to spend "quality family time" with their kids.
I am intent on going to visit a Museum on Sunday 21 Aug. The American Wartime Museum in Manassas, Virginia (not far from where we are) has an annual Open House day and this year it has coincided with our US visit. I've been to this Museum before - after having been alerted to its existence by a magazine article I read in Perth some years ago. At that time it was known as the Virginia Museum of Military Vehicles and it seems as though it still is, at least on the website.
Have a look at http://www.vmmv.org/
On a visit here a few years ago, I took the opportunity to make contact with the administrator and subsequently visited what was at that time merely a collection of some very fine military vehicles from across the world. I remember they had among other things, a Swedish S type tank, numerous British stuff including Centurions and earlier tanks.
They bill the Open House day (21 Aug) as offering a free preview of the American Wartime Museum - operational
tanks and other armor, a Blackhawk helicopter, living history reenactments,
conversations with veterans and reenactors, and more!
