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All right. Hello. Today is Saturday, July 13th. My name is Daiki Tsumagari. I'm with the Humanities Truck. Do I have your permission to record this interview? Yes. And so what brought you out here today? And so my name is Brian Robinson. I'm a park ranger with Monocacy National Battlefield, and this is my service animal, Kaiser. And he is a bark ranger with Monocacy National Battlefield.

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And what do you do at this battlefield? Yes, it's a national battlefield. We commemorate the the July 9th, 1864 battle. The battle that saved Washington, that was a small battle between Jubal Anderson Early and Lew Wallace -- Major General Lew Wallace of the Union Army. And it was delayed, early, about a day before he made it down here to Washington during the 1864 Valley Campaign. And what does your, what does the day to day tasks look like for you? Well, I wear a lot of hats at Monocacy. I'm a park ranger for interpretation, so that's my primary job. And then I am also the curator, the research librarian, and the collateral duty safety coordinator. So the safety officer.

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And then what brought you out here today? Well, this was an opportunity for me to come and help the National Park Service with the National Mall team with their event today to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial here in Lincoln Park. And so I snatched up that opportunity and drove right down. And Angie has told me that you would like to share your story about the Candles Museum? I'm sorry?

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Angie told me that you would like to share your story about the Candles Museum and oral history project that you're working on? Oh, no. I was giving her an example of a very good oral history project that was done. I was not a part of it. It's at the Candles Museum in Terre Haute, Indiana, and it's the museum was opened by a survivor, a Holocaust survivor named Eva Kor. And she was at Auschwitz and liberated by the Soviet army in 1945. And she immigrated to the United States with her sister. They both survived and they were twins. They were part of the Mengele experiments. And so she started that museum there in Terre Haute, Indiana, and she would lead tours back and forth to Europe to to look at, take students on trips to concentration camp sites, documentation centers. And so I had a chance to visit the museum a few years ago. And basically, I was very impressed. I'm trained in oral history. And what they were doing were they were they had interviewed apparently, uh, a 12 to 15 Holocaust survivors. And those people were asked a series of about 1500 questions. And when you would go into the museum, you would actually go into this theater, and in front of you would be a hologram, and it would be a hologram of that person. And that person. You could sit down and actually ask them questions, and AI would understand the questions that you were trying to ask them. And you could literally have a conversation with that person. And I just thought that was one of the best examples of oral history that I had ever seen. That's great. Well, I think we'll take a little rest after this, but is there anything else you'd like to add? Uh, no, I don't think so. No. Come out to Monocacy National Battlefield and visit us there. It's the biggest battle you've never heard of. Thank you.