enter corine wegener, a curatori at the minneapolis institute d of art, a terrorist who served l in iraq as a civil affairs officer end helped save the baghdad museum and the jewish archives sponsored by the work of the monument's men and women of world war ii. she called a meeting in washington, leaders of cultural institutions came. as the smithsonian undersecretary at the time, i g listened to what she had to say. she knew what she was talking about. a few weeks after meeting . corine, we were in haiti meeting with several command generals who was leading some 12,000 u.s. troops providing humanitarian and civil support in haiti. he encouraged and aided our va effort to save the cultural heritage. we planned with haitian officials. the minister in charge -- he h had been a research smithsonian years before. at the time, after that earthquake with his country in r ruins, he was reading a recently published book called the monument. that inspired him and convinced him that we should undertake this effort to try to rescue haiti's cultural heritage in the wake of the earthquake and its des