The museum has allocated $4.4 million for the project so far -- about two thirds from donations and grants and the rest from the museum's operating budget. Iron Mountain, a records management company, gave $100,000 to digitize one hundred of the interviews and plans on donating a similar amount this year.
The idea of putting the collection online came about following Hurricane Katrina. The museum didn't get flood, but was closed for months afterwards to repair damage from roof leaks and looting. (Looting, really?) When it did reopen, few visitors showed up.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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