Each set of photos is different, so scroll down and enjoy. There are also a few special flashbacks included.

Once a Marine ... Always A Marine ..... The Proud -- The Few
Lee Duquette

Once a Marine ... Always A Marine ..... The Proud -- The Few
Lee Duquette - Still Amazing through the years

Below: Lee Duquette in 2008

Below: Lee Duquette in 2014

Below: Lee Duquette in 2019

The National Museum of the Marine Corps is the historical museum of the United States Marine Corps located astride I-95 near Marine Corps Base Quantico in Triangle, Virginia. There is no admission fee and parking at the Museum is free. The Museum Store carries a full line of Marine merchandise. Lee bought a bulldog shirt.

The museum opened on November 10, 2006, and is now one of the top tourist attraction in the state, drawing over 500,000 people annually. The museum replaces both the Marine Corps Historical Center in the Washington Navy Yard, which closed on July 1, 2005, and the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum in Quantico, Virginia, which closed on November 15, 2002.

Below: Lee Duquette at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. in 2014

Below: Displays of military aircraft high in the air inside the Leatherneck Gallery of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

Below; Karen Duquette took different views of the planes in the Leatherneck Gallery. Some photos were taken from below, and some from the balcony.

Below: The view of a fighter plane from below and the view from the balcony.

Below: More views from below and from the balcony

Below: Ground displays in the Leatherneck Gallery of the museum - from below and from the balcony.

Lee Duquette still ready for action today - and yes, he did actually serve on a ship and went overseas ready to fight - just not in the uniform shown below.

Below: Replica of Iwo Jima Monument.
It is behind glass so it was
hard to photograph.

Below; Plans for a major expansion
to include sections on
more modern Marine Corps history.

Below: Lee Duquette inside a mock-up of a landing craft, similar to the one he was on when he was in the Marines.

Below: Lee Duquette's specialty when he was in the Marine Corps was the M-60 Machine Gun, so Karen Duquette took a photo of the M-60 Machine Gun on display.

Below: Flashback - Lee Duquette with his M-6- machine gun

The National Museum of the Marine Corps commemorated the anniversary of 9/11 with the temporary exhibit "9/11 - We Remember," which features an I-beam from the World Trade Center and a Pentagon building fragment as well as inspiring stories of extraordinary efforts that have been taken to keep America safe since that fateful day.

Below: A piece of the World Trade Center I-Beam.

Below: Pentagon Building Fragment

Below: A model of the National Museum of the Marine Corps and its proposed expansions.
Check out the neat reflection (of an UPSIDE-DOWN Lee) in the photo below on the right.

Below: Outside of The National Museum of the Marine Corps. building

Below: The Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel

Below: The Semper Fidelis Memorial Chapel and the etching on the window

Below: Monuments/memorials on the grounds of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

Sign: The Chesty Puller Overlook and statue

Below: Iwo Jima Monument on the roadside near the National Museum of the Marine Corps. in Triangle, Virginia.
The two RV Gypsies have also visited the Iwo Jima Monument in Washington D.C. in 2001.

Below: Entrance to Quantico - crossroads of the Marine Corps.

The two RV Gypsies visited
The National Museum of the Marine Corps
in Triangle, Virginia
for the third time
April 4, 2019

Below: Different views of the building as seen from the monument trails.

Below: Lee re-visiting the experience of waiting in line for That First Haircut

Below: Displays in the museum

Lee Duquette still ready for action today.

Below: A few of the monuments around the outside of the building

Below: A Special Military Hero

Below: 9/11 Monument at the Marine Museum in 2014

If you want to know about the Mameluke Sword (a 2011 visit) and other U.S. Marine stuff, check out the information at the Frankfort KY Cemetery.

Continue on in 2019 to the see The Two RV Gypsies on their second private tour of The Pentagon.

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