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An announcement for the upcoming event honoring our veterans on Sunday, May 25, 2008 at the Veterans Memorial Museum, 2425 Fresno St., Fresno, CA, 3:00 pm. Entitled the "The Footsteps of our Fathers", this will be an exciting fund-raising event to recognize and honor our vets living in the Fresno/Clovis area, and will raise money for the renovation and upkeep as well as bringing attention to the Veterans Memorial Museum so people can continue to visit this "Best Kept Secret". There will be a BBQ, door prizes, tours, and special guest appearances. For information and tickets visit the website.

THE museum set up by the French authorities to commemorate the D-Day landings is struggling under a mountain of debt amid a sharp decline in the number of visitors. The Memorial Museum in Caen, Normandy, has been accused of mismanagement for turning its back on the Second World War to concentrate on subjects from feminism to Father Christmas. In recent months the museum has focused efforts on transforming itself into a “place of reflection on the contemporary world”. “It’s ridiculous,” said Claude Quétel, who was sacked as the museum’s chief historian last year after protesting that it had fallen victim...