Thanks to good friend, Ron Plunkett, for sending this in. He volunteers more hours than any three people I know.
This story was first shown on CBS News in April 2015. It concerns two young twin brothers from North Carolina who found a connection to US Navy Veteran, Robert Harding. In WWII he served aboard the carrier USS Yorktown, now a museum ship at Patriots Point in Mount Pleasant, SC Charleston Harbor.
Carter and Jack Hanson -- 10-year-old twins -- became enamored with naval warfare after playing the game Battleship. Their interest sparked a family trip to see the the aircraft carrier the Yorktown. As the Hansons learned about its history, they started corresponding with one of the ship's veterans. Steve Hartman was there when the boys finally met their hero in person.
It is no secret that every museum needs to reach the younger generations. That is never more true when it comes to military museums, whether they be on land or in the water to tell the stories of the men and women who went before so the younger generations can have the freedoms we all enjoy every day. It will be up to the younger generations to continue to learn from, fund and support these museums and build new ones, like the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum and the National Medal of Honor Museum.
Update September 2022: At 3:05 in the video, the story gets an update to this year.
