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David Moore
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| First Name | David |
| Last Name | Moore |
| Graduation Year | Class of (Faculty) |
| Gender | Male |
| Current Location | Salem, South Carolina |
| About Me | I was born in Fresno, California, during an earthquake. By the time I was 18, I had moved five times. I enlisted in the Army at 18, served in Vietnam and then stateside as a paratrooper, completing 27 jumps. I enrolled in college after the Army and studied one year as an exchange student in Heidelberg. I graduated from college, then worked in Israel and Guatemala. I went to graduate school in West Berlin, then worked again for the Israel National Museum. I lived for awhile with a Bedouin family in the West Bank (I also speak Arabic). I went back to graduate school at CSU Sacramento (Anthropology) and George Mason (US History). For the entire time at the Library of Congress, I worked with German material. I also organized and translated the Sumerian clay tablet collection (I am one of about 500 people in the world who know ancient Sumerian). I also started and ran the Library of Congress Professional Association Veterans Forum, where I hosted fifty speakers I had invited. It was an amazing experience, not just with the Veterans Forum, but working in an institution founded by Thomas Jefferson. I closed out the Forum after inviting Lynndie England, as well as her former prosecutor to speak at a later date. Unfortunately, Col. Morris Davis (ret.), who worked for LC's Congressional Research Division, threatened violent demonstration unless I cancelled the event; Davis, as a former prosecutor at Guantanamo, found Lynndie offensive. I refused. The event was cancelled over my objections and not wanting to surrender to the lunatic fringe. I then cancelled the Forum and, so...(read more) |