SEATTLE, WA – The U.S. Army is looking to shutter more than two dozen military museums, including Washington’s “gem” at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Pierce County.
Lewis Army Museum is one of 29 facilities that the U.S. Army Center of Military History announced earlier this month will be closed or consolidated to direct more resources toward “readiness and lethality.”
“I’m really upset. I don’t think anybody is very keen on it,” said Tom Morgan, 88, a retired lieutenant colonel and vice president of the Friends of the Lewis Army Museum. “It is going to take a lot of political pressure to change this.”…