Them, and the original metal was given to the smithsonian bytitution as was directed the bill that president barack obama had signed. This story is one that even though they were granted veteran status and got this honor, it is really a story that a lot of people are not familiar with. They did not ask for this credit. They came to serve their country, and they came together and released men to fly overseas helpg world war ii to america win this war, and when it was done, they packed up their bags, they paid their own way home, and they left it at that. These women really change the at aof americas military time when their country needed them, and that is the story that we are currently here telling at the history museum. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] announcer now, a look at the American Cities twohour in connection with our cable partners. To learn more about the stops, visit cspan. Org citiestour. Announcer we are here in nebraska, and art deco building built in 1931, and it was the second station built by union pacific. The architect, Gilbert Stanley underwood, wanted to make a statement about what it was like. To him, it was strength, and that is what he really wanted this golden to embody. Omaha really started out as a frontier town, a typical frontier town. They decided they wanted to found the city on this side of the river, and it was established, and everybody knew there was going to be a Transcontinental Railroad. They just did not know where, and they said we have a better chance of having this railroad if we have a city on the opposite side of the river, already established and ready to go, and that is where they will build the railroad, and it works. That was the founding city, but cities on the west side of the river tend to develop, because it is easier to move west. Union pacific is one of the Railroad Companies of america, founded in 1862 would be Pacific Railway act signed into law by abraham lincoln, so it combines several Railroad Companies to make union pacific, and then they were charged with building the Transcontinental Railroad that would connect to the east and the west coast, so they volunteered, and the central pacific, they started on the west coast and were moving east. And that is really what propelled us even farther. Become that point of moving west, one of the gateways to the west, so that was the railroad. This facility came about as the second station to have helped the passengers coming from omaha. The first Union Station had needed capacity, so they a new, modern station, so this was heralded as a brandnew building, a different style. The first one was neoclassical. The art deco style was en vogue in 1931, so they decided to raze the first to the ground and show everyone in the nation that omaha had arrived in terms of architecture. This was the height of world war ii, 1946, thousands of people the day, 64 trains coming and going, and it was a home of activity, and what you would have seen was people coming and then dead silence. You were waiting for the next influx of people, so you have these great times of activity and people running back and work, and then dead calm, and it would pick back up again, so that would have been kind of the norm for a day at Union Station. We have preserved the great hall as the way it would have been in 1931, so the benches would have been what you would have sat