Mission
- Collect, preserve, protect and make available the artifacts, documents, and art that best embody our naval history and heritage for present and future generations.
- Advance the knowledge of naval history and heritage through professional research, analysis, interpretation, products and services.
- Make naval history and heritage "come alive" for our Sailors and Marines to enhance readiness and esprit de corps.
- Remind America of its need to maintain a strong Navy and Marine Corps to protect its citizens, their freedoms and the nation's maritime commerce.
Read more about this topic: Naval History & Heritage Command
Famous quotes containing the word mission:
“Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.”
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907–1961)
“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)