Pieces of combat art from Marine Corps museum going on U.S. tour Photo: The National Museum of the Marine Corps Facebook page
Multiple pieces of art from the National Museum of the Marine Corps at Quantico are going on tour.
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation today announced a new traveling combat art exhibition titled Honor, Courage, Commitment: Marine Corps Art, 1975-2018. The exhibit features 36 works of art by 15 combat artists, focusing on Marine Corps service immediately following the Vietnam War through recent years.
The museum’s Marine Corps Combat Art Gallery opened in July 2017, as part of an expansion of the museum that included an IMAX movie theatre.
Obama s praise part of odd year for author and Fairfield University professor
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Like so many authors who have released books during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent quarantine, Phil Klay is disappointed that he hasn’t gotten to interact personally with his readers.
Learning firsthand what his readers think is “one of the really delightful things” about writing books, says Klay, an associate professor in Fairfield University’s master of the fine arts in creative writing program.
However, Klay’s debut novel, “Missionaries,” released in October, received some positive feedback from a very special reader.
“Missionaries” which uses interlocking stories of four characters to tell a story of civil war in Colombia was chosen by former President Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2020. It’s the second time Obama has picked one of Klay’s books for his personal top 10, but the experience doesn’t get old.
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John Curtis ‘Curt’ Thomson
WILMINGTON John Curtis ‘Curt’ Thomson, 103, peacefully passed at Lower Cape Fear LifeCare Center after a long and faithful life as a U.S. Marine, husband and father.
The eldest son of J.C. and Matibel Thomson of Decatur, Georgia, Curt received a degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1939.
He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942, attended OCS at Quantico and received special training at MIT’s Radar School before being assigned as a first lieutenant with the newly-formed 542nd Night Fighter Squadron at Cherry Point. The 542nd served in the World War II Pacific Theater at Guam, Ulithi, Peleliu and Okinawa and in occupation duty in Yokusaka, Japan. Curt returned in December 1945 to marry his sweetheart, Emma Harris Whitaker, in Enfield on Dec. 28.
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