Army Monuments Officers work in a military capacity to identify and preserve cultural treasures around the world that are threatened by conflict, just like the Monuments Men of World War II who recovered millions of artifacts looted by the Nazis
The Smithsonian Cultural Recovery Initiative hosts a disaster training exercise for army reservists at the National Museum of the United States Army on August 10, 2022, in Fort Belvoir, VA, United States.Image: Maansi Srivastava/The Washington Post via Getty Images
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