" No one else could have provided, and no one else stepped up to provide, a collection of weapons to help the Museum in the early days have a “professional weapons display. "
- BETRAYED OVER 30 YEARS
" ...But this project has been and continues to be a tremendous task, mainly because the donation of funds and articles for display have not been that forthcoming.
In order for the Museum to open on November 10, 1985, we have to raise thousands of dollars and accumulate a vast number of artifacts from all three wartime eras: World War II, Korea and Vietnam, as well as the intervening periods and the present.
...don't overlook those old war relics that you will never use or look at again. "
-Letter from Capt Olson to former and current UDT and SEALs soliciting assistance with the opening of the Museum