Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference.
The Marines don't have that problem. The remarks by J. Carter Brown appear in a transcript of a 1994 Fine Arts Commission meeting is being circulated by Friends of Iwo Jima, a group lobbying Congress to reverse approval of an Air Force monument just 600 feet from the Marine memorial. The group, along with Rep. Gerald B.H. Solomon, R-N.Y., a former Marine, is also battling in court to block construction of the Air Force structure on the Arlington grounds, just across the Potomac River from Washington. Carter Brown has a tendency to look down his nose at people, especially the Marine Corps. Brown, former director of the National Gallery of Art, was traveling in Europe and unavailable for comment.