With a little experience in the CF Museum system and as an Individual Member in the OMMC, these actions cut me. Up in Pet there are similar things happening, with the distruction of older buildings. Some of you may remember the former HQ Bldg E-1, which was the first Diefenbunker, while the one in Carp was being constructed. It was destroyed a couple years back, as there was another bldg in Calgary, I believe, that was the same design.
The Base Museum here in Petawawa has started a major renovation and will hopefully be reopened for the Base Centennial in 2005. It's storage buildings have slowly been torn down and storage room cut in half each time one of its' buildings disappear.
I know the RCAC Association was/is on a fund raising campaign to preserve and house the Borden Collection. The destruction of the Buildings it is currently housed in, now raises the amounts they will have to raise. I also know that, with all its good intentions, DHH can not do much due to lack of personnel and resources. They are the 'poor cousins' in NDHQ and get probably the lowest of all priorities there.
Preserving Canada's Military History is a very frustrating business in Canada, and in the Canadian Armed Forces itself. We can look no further than the Canadian War Museum to see how little Canadians on a whole feel.
It looks like it is up to the individual to preserve some of our History. A very sad statement of where our National Pride had gone.
George
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