Re: U-505

On 3 Apr 05, at 16:34, packhow75 wrote:

> Be nice if someone was willing to invest that sort of money into Bletchley
> Park.

Couldn't agree more.  Unfortunately Bletchley does not have the same sort
of attraction to the unwashed masses as something that goes "boom"
does. To a small group it has infinitely more attraction, to a slightly larger
group (who may have a vague idea of how it worked and what it meant) it
has some, but to the large fee-paying sector of the public who may have
heard of Enigma in passing (and forgotten about it almost instantly) it has
little. If the choice is bewteen Bletchley or that large mouse chappie -
guess where it's mostly going to go.  Sad, but true.  I was reading, in the
last few days, of a Marine Museum being opened somewhere in the US
and on which they have spent $135(?) million.  They expect 1/2 a million
visitors per year.  I wonder if they will sustain it, unless there is a surfeit of
things that go "boom" to keep the herd amused.


Eugene L Griessel
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