The museum has probably the finest collection of its kind in the country.

We serve as a research center. But our most important role is education. We teach the history of the fire service - and we teach fire safety. That's the most important component.

There's a future for it and I believe the town needs an attraction of this nature and size to bring people in.

disappointing to say the least ... but not surprising because it is a first year.

We have to keep remembering that it is a first year, ... is not a small amount of money.

One of the generals, I think, said yesterday that over 90 percent of the attacks that occurred in the country, including those outside the Sunni triangle, are coming from within that Sunni triangle. It's there that I think they really have to win the war.