The new 3,000-square-foot museum, which will be free and open to the public, is in part of a former enlisted man's club. The renovated club also has a gift shop and houses the newly opened USO center and cafe. Educating soldiers is the center's primary mission, but it's also intended to be a link to the surrounding civilian community.
The museum is divided into four sections to tell its stories.
The first focuses on the area's Native American history through the French and Indian War and War of 1812; the second examines Fort Drum's precursors; the third depicts the division's history during World War II; and the fourth details the division's deployments since its reactivation in 1985 Hurricane Andrew, the Gulf War, Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia and Kosovo among them. The last section includes weapons captured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
One part ofthe museum is an exhibit called Granddad's Attic. The display is designed to give both soldiers and other visitors an idea about what to do when an old Army item is found.
This definitely is on my list of places to visit.
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In other Fort Drum news, the Military Mountaineers Statue has been moved in a plan which will turn the monument location into a memorial park with the statue as its focal point. A truck transported the 10-ton statue, which features a World War II Mountain Soldier assisting his modern-day 10th Mountain Division counterpart in scaling a precipice.
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