My first three weeks as an intern at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia have gone quite well and I have already had my hands on a plethora of different things. This semester I will be doing a multitude small projects as well as one large project for the memorial. Smaller projects will consist of working on research questions, learning how to give tours, and other miscellaneous projects. The larger project is helping the staff put together a commemorative video that will be about 40 minutes long as it is the memorial’s 20 year anniversary this year.
Below is a photo of an exhibit I helped finalize this past week. The exhibit is in honor of Robert “Bob” Slaughter who was a D-Day veteran himself from Roanoke, Virginia and helped spring the Memorial into action. Putting together the exhibit consisted of finding photographs from the archives, as well as artifacts such as Bob’s blazer and hard hat, and creating caption cards for each artifact/picture. I feel very fortunate and honored to have created this exhibit as Bob sadly passed away in 2012.
