Military can visit museums free

| May 25, 2010

More than 600 museums in 50 states are waiving admission fees for active-duty military personnel and their families from May 31-Sept. 6 as part oaf the Blue Star Museum program.

If you are an active-duty military person and/or an immediate family member (spouse or child), you must show a Geneva Conventions CAC ID or a DD Form 1173 ID card at the museum admission desk to get in free. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an appropriate ID holder.

To find a participating museum, click here. The deal is good at many Florida museums.

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Teresa Mears is a publisher, writer and editor who was raised to be frugal. She was downsized last summer after nearly 30 years as an editor at newspapers ranging in size from the Portland (Tenn.) Leader to The Los Angeles Times and The Miami Herald, where she worked most recently. She moved to Florida in 1980 because it was the only place she could get a job during that recession and has lived in South Florida since 1985, in Miami, Hollywood and Fort Pierce. She also has lived on Florida’s Gulf Coast, in St. Petersburg and Inverness.

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