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 Posted: Wed Nov 8th, 2006 05:06 pm
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TimHoffman01
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 Unfortunately I haven't been able to get down there to see it yet.  Between stuff with my son's scout troop, Graduate school, and things around my house going to heck in a handbasket (amazing how everything seems to start wearing out at once!) I haven't had the time that seems necessary to really get a good look and let it sink in.  I have some time off coming up in December and I'm hoping of getting down there SOMETIME that week. 

I will be going to visit my in-laws over Thanksgiving and I might be able to talk my mom-in-law into coming with me and the kids to the Mariner's museum and Ft. Monroe.  I know we'll enjoy it, and she loves watching me try to explain all this to my son (7).  If he can actually see and touch something he always seems to get more out of it.  (Even if the simulated bullets swishing past in the breeze at Pamplin Park south of Petersburg did send him running....or maybe it was that lady's scream?)

I recently read to him a little bit from the book Ironclad (obviously about the Monitor).   I told him I knew of where he could go to actually see it and he really seemed interested and asked me questions for about 45 minutes.  Long enough to get us both in trouble with my wife since it was a school night and I was supposed to be putting him to bed.  She says he's too young to get any of it.  I tend to disagree about that to some degree.  I got interested in the generar subject after my parents took me to Manassas...and there was less to see there then than now, and a lot less than at some of the modern museums.