GDG- Save The Electric Map

[JKJorg at aol.com]

I am not sure if the uproar is due to losing the Electric Map as a learning  
tool or as a piece of nostalgia.  If it due to the former, too late, you  have 
already lost it.  Several times I have been in the current VC and  heard kids 
coming out of the presentation snickering about the "corny  presentation", 
not once have I heard, "wow".
Kids these days are exposed to so much multimedia presentations, that the  
map and it quaintness just doesn't match up.  The money spent on moving and  
setting it up (and redoing the new VC at this point) can better spent on  
something that can catch the attention of young people the way the Map grabbed  us.
 
As far as the latter, outside of this distinguished body and other hard  core 
CW fans, I am afraid that the Electric Map has no real value.  It is  
destined to go the way of Charley Weaver's dioramas, which were amazing to me  and 
added to my desire to learn more of the War.
 
Just the thoughts of a lurker.



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