Crewman from a WW2 German U-Boat has words we should ponder

[Martin Eden]

20. Thank you so much for sharing that! I've been visiting the Museum & U-505 since I was a child.

My father served in the Pacific theater in WW2. I was born in 1957, a lifelong Chicagoland resident (except when I attended Southern Illinois University). I'm also familiar with the downtown museum campus (Field, Shedd, Planetarium - all great). If you ever visit our fine city again and have time, I recommend the Chicago History Museum on the north side. It's much smaller, but well worthwhile. What struck me the most are bronze casts of Abraham Lincoln's face & hands from when he was alive, and the bed he died on from the boarding house across the street from Ford's Theater.

In the Museum of Science & Industry you visited, the exhibit that struck an emotional chord with me had handwritten notes from Gregory Peck when he was filming To Kill a Mockingbird. There are some scenes in that movie which always bring tears, no matter how many times I've seen it.