Eric Prince

You bet, Steve.

Yes, sir.

In 1961, our CNO, very famous gentleman, Arlie Burke, Admiral Arlie Burke, declared that we needed to have a National Navy Museum.

And it took us all this time.

We're the last of the services.

The Army created a brilliant museum, and the Marine Corps Museum is fabulous.

Medal of Honor, lots of different museums, but we have been lagging behind on that.

So we're involved in a project of which I'm the president, and we call our organization the National Navy Museum Foundation.

And we're embarked in a fundraising campaign to raise a sufficient amount of money

funds to really capture the essence of our Navy over the past 250 years.

Now, we believe that the story of our nation is also the story of our Navy.

And so this will be an artifact-centric, lots of great artifacts,

but with stories of leadership, heroics, strategic history, things of this nature, and then culminating as well in education programs for our inner city youth, but also projects for our high-end schools where we can teach thermodynamics and things of this nature in a Navy-centric way.

yes sir we have a thank you for asking that we have a website nmdf national museum development foundation nmdf.org you can donate uh right on the front page you can't miss it and it'll it'll kind of lay out you know what our goals and aspirations are but uh this project's been going on for a long time we're uh we're very optimistic about our future

and hope in 2030 to be able to open the doors to a really magnificent experience for mom, dad, and the kids, as well as veterans and anybody that has an appreciation for our national history and our military services.

Yeah, for many years, for five years, I was the executive director of the Naval Historical Foundation.

And I have about 84 or so pieces of content.

I had a monthly program called Second Saturday.

So it was the

NHF, Naval Historical Foundation, second Saturday, and we really tackled every major issue, including fun topics like, you know, athletes who served in World War II.