This change is not good:

[DannyW]

Surratt House participates annually in the national Blue Star Museums program administered through the NEH. Through this, active and retired members of the military receive free admission to participating museums between Memorial Day and Labor Day. They may bring up to five dependents with them, but all need to show a current military ID.

I have been working with our gov't. agency's Public Affairs and Marketing Division to advertise this, and one of the reps put together a teaser to send out to various news media in hopes that reporters would pick up on the human interest angle.

The following quote from that teaser shows a depressing statistic about the state of U.S. history among our middle school students. I suspect that the statistic does not change much, even on the college level...

"The most recent study conducted by The National Assessment of Educational Progress found only 18% of more than 11,000 eighth graders were ‘proficient’ in U.S. history."

Laurie, I deal with this every day on students lack of historical knowledge especially American History. A few examples
1. While watching the Alamo. one student asked who won?
2. While watching Gods & Generals, one student remarked who are the soldiers in blue.
3. Another student commented when seeing the Confederate battle flag, Isn't that a racist flag?
4. Still another student asked if this war was in the 1900s.
5. Many students think there are 52 states and that Canada is part of the United States.
And the list goes on and on.