AMERICA’S MARINES AT USMC MUSEUM (Ep 107) 2:57

Retired Marine 1:
I’d consider them the best because their pride is in what they do.

Retired Marine 2:
They always say once a Marine always a Marine; well, you can ask my wife that. I was drafted into the Marines but it was the best thing that ever happened in my life.

Female Marine 1:
We came out to see the Silent Drill and the preciseness of the moves.

Male Marine 1:
The history of the museum came from a concept from General McKay and some of the other generals back in 1996.

Male Marine 2:
Working in this museum is easily a blessing because it has become more than just a job. You get to meet so many people with stories, you get to see what it really means to be once a Marine, always a Marine.

Male Marine 1:
They are not mannequins. They are cast figures. It took about six hours to make the body mold, individually it depends on which you posed for. My mold particularly took five hours and they put some plaster around you and they mould you and put it around your face. So that’s what makes it so real, the attention to detail.


Voiceover:
The Vietnam exhibit lets you see all the little details of coming out of a helo; the vibrations, the smell, the noise. The hut and some of them cast figures in there, they captured the people there as well as the Marines integrated together. So you can get both sides of the story. It gives you chills because it is very realistic. You step in there and it takes you right to boot camp. You get that same feeling that you had right that first time you stepped off the bus and you were introduced to your drill instructor. Some of the must-see items are the medal honor recipients.

Male Marine 2:
It’s easy to kind of walk by the pugil sticks because it is just a little twelve by twelve hole. You have to really put yourself in that perspective of that danger is always there.

Male Marine 1:
Most of the veterans say it brings back memories.

Retired Marine 1:
The Marine Corps today, especially the men that are in it, are the best you are going to get.

Male Marine 3:
They definitely are true American heroes.

Retired Marine 2:
I respect every one of them and every time I see one of them, I thank him.

Male Marine 1:
It’s not that I am in the Marine Corps; it’s that I am a Marine and this is what I do.