Before me were fourteen college-age men and women in uniform, not much younger than me, their eyes taking in the sight as I stood there with a strange piece of wood with two leather straps sitting on the desk in front of me, and behind me, a set of long underwear hung from the red, white, black, and gold flag captured in 1945 from the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Looking at the faces of the people in front of me, filled with confusion and eager expectation, I knew that I enjoyed being in the field of education. This was my first solo class taught at the United States Naval Academy Museum (USNAM) in Annapolis, Maryland. The topic today was Museum Studies, but we affectionately called it “Weird and Wacky History” where my mentor, Sondra, the Education Specialist at USNAM, and I would find the most diverse and crazy mix of artifacts and talk about their significance to the soon-to-be US Navy officers. That day’s collection included many artifacts but the ones that drew everyone’s attention were a gunsight for a cannon that was aboard the USS Saratoga that valiantly served the United States during the War of 1812, the underwear of Admiral Richmond P. Hobson who did not have time to put on his uniform as he rushed to save his ship and crew before ultimately being captured during the Spanish-American War, and the swastika adorned flag taken by US troops as they captured the Reich Chancellery in Berlin during World War II.