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To: xzins; Old Sarge; Valin; Matthew James
Anyone near Ft Knox, Kentucky absolutely must visit the Patton Museum on post. It is the best military museum I've ever run across, and it is dedicated to Patton memorabilia.

Currently there is a large display of Elvis memorbilia at the Patton Museum. The wife of the Ft Knox CG, MG Terry Tucker, is a Elvis fan and helped arrange for his uniforms and other items to be placed there on loan from other museums and Graceland. The Patton Museum recently received a large sum of money from several sources, it is a private museum not receiving anything from the Army, that will allow it to expand to about 3 times the current size. This expansion will still not be large enough to allow for display of all the equipment on hand. There are two buildings in one of the motor pools on Ft Knox that are virtually crammed to the ceiling with items for display. I hope to see this all completed in the next two or three years.

84 posted on 06/26/2004 6:06:57 AM PDT by SLB ("We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us." C. S. Lewis)
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To: SLB

The Patton Museum also sits inside a very impressive park with various antique armor, artillery, and mech infantry vehicles on display.

Hearing about the upgrade of the museum, I'll be back in a few years to see it, (TGLW).


87 posted on 06/26/2004 6:11:32 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Supporting Bush/Cheney 2004!)
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