World War II Talks at the Memorial
Dan Arant has been a National Park Service volunteer sine 1993 and serves at the Vietnam Memorial and the WWII Memorial. His current topics are: Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Iwo Jima. Future planned topics are: The Battle of the Atlantic, Japan’s Kamikaze Force, and the Surrener Ceremony on the USS Missouri. Each talk is supported by 8×10 photos prvided by the U.S. Naval Institute. dan served in the Marine Corps Reserve, Navy Reserve, and active duty Navy, to include a year in Vietnam with the U.S. Naval Advisory Group. He retired as a civilian from the Office of Naval Intelligence
When you are flying your hub in, you might want to contact Dan about his availability for a lecture. Each lecture is twenty minutes. You will see him on the South side of the Memorial with boards of photographs lined up along the marble benches. I will be posting his regularly scheduled lectures. You can contact him at arantdr@yahoo.com
Jewel of the Mall: World War II Memorial book is a 120 page full color book on the WWII Memorial.