Ford, Revisited

My first visit to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids was detailed on these very pages more than three years ago (see March 4, 2005), when I visited by myself. This time I was with many more members of my family, and Ford himself is now in residence on the museum grounds, under -- or behind -- an astonishingly plain stone wall bearing the epitaph, "Lives Committed to God, Country and Love," plus "Gerald R. Ford 1913-2006" and "Elizabeth Bloomer Ford 1918-." I didn't take a picture of the grave site, though I had a camera. An image is here.

Lilly was busy taking pictures of and at the museum, however. Such as an exterior of the main entrance:

This space oddity below is outside the main entrance. Ford isn't generally associated with manned space flight, but why not, I say. Interesting that the astronaut seems to be floating at the back of the rocket. Even a minor burn for a mid-course correction's going to toast him.

Inside, I found a display of WIN buttons, patches and other WIN items, that eluded me on my last visit. It's a fuzzy image, but it still captures the array of WIN that most of the nation never even knew existed.