now, a brief interview with museum president and ceo nick muller. >> the national world war ii museum is america's museum for that tour. designated by congress in 2004. we began as the d-day museum. name,ngress gave us a new a new mandate, and we are standing here in the united states freedom pavilion, the boeing center, which we opened just four years ago as part of our expansion of our six acre campus here in new orleans. this museum is one of the great museums in the world now. trip advisor rankings has us ranked as the third most popular museum in america this posterior -- this past year. the other two ahead of us are art museums. but this museum's mission is to nature of the epic world war ii and what was at stake for our country for our freedom and our democracy. it took everything we had. it was a fight to the finish for civilization itself. it took all of our material resources, human resources, economic resources, and spiritual resources to win the fight against tyranny, against fascism, against racism. and we didn't want the war. we were isolationists. we were not prepared f