Of the exhibit you are about to see is one we started putting together shortly after the president died. People here really invested in the Funeral Service because it happened here and the train came up here from houston to college station. They were proud of the fact that the first lady and president were buried here. A lot of that was incorporated into the exhibit. One of the first things you see is the lifesized statue of sully, president bushs service dog. At a ceremony a couple of months ago, we installed sully, and the reallife sully came to the ceremony. That dog is now at walter reed. The real iconic photo in the exhibit is of sully in front of president bushs casket. President bush got sully in june 2018 and he served for about six months until the president s death on november 30, 2018. So we have a picture of him as a puppy, and with president bush, and he did help president bush with everyday tasks and added quality to the last months of his life. The memorial exhibit itself, we have the flag that flew at half staff over the white house, and we also have the flag that flew over the capital. One of my favorite items in this exhibit is the ships wheel that was built by the crew of the uss george w. Bush, george h w bush, cvn 77, which will be the last nimitzclass aircraft carrier. The crew built it and it was presented here in june of 2019, i believe. And they created it themselves. We had all the sailors of the year from the ship here, we bring them in here once a year, the sailors of the year, they come to the library and do a service project. The cases have the shells that were used for the 21gun salute, at Ellington Air force base in houston, which is where the body arrived here in texas from the in washington, d. C. This is the page Angela Merkel signed. We have the condolence book, which is turned to barack and michelle obama, and we also have the program from the service. And we have the u. S. Senate condolence book, which is turned to Mitch Mcconnells signature. We have a photomontage from throughout his life. The early life, they were married young, he was still in the navy when they got married. We have a montage of photos from their life, from his career here at the library. And some photos, a nice photo from tomball, texas as up 4141 carried the body, and that is a section of track where the train actually went over it. One of my favorite cartoons, this is one of a series of two. Whenmisses bush died, there was a going tof mrs. Bush heaven and being greeted by her daughter. And when president bush died about six months later, a cartoonist from jackson, mississippi, did a cartoon of president bush meeting robin and mrs. Bush in heaven. President bush loved trains and loved railroad travel. Early in the planning for his funeral, he wanted to be brought from houston to college station, his final resting place here at the library, in a train. So the drum light from the train, then up used some of its Heritage Fleet to bring the family up, and they had a car especially designed for the casket, and they created the up 4141 for an exhibit we did on american railroads more than 10 years ago. At that railcar, that up 4141 locomotive was used to pull the train. And it will be coming here sometime in the next year or year and a half, and will be outside the library. So we are really looking forward to that. And then, the u. S. Postal service issued a stamp in june 2019, a forever stamp with the president s portrait, and unveil that here at a ceremony in college station. The president picked the portrait out himself. Mrs. Now, president and bush were so much a part of this place. From 1993 until the last years of their life, they were here all the time. They did programming with us, president and mrs. Bush both. She did a Literacy Program for us every year. He was here for events all the time. It really was like their second home here. And we want to remember them here, we got to enjoy their company for so long here in town. You can watch this and other programs at cspan. Org citiestour. This is American History tv only on cspan3. The Film Documents the origins of hiroshimas peace park and tells the story of how handmade paper cranes became a symbol of peace and remembrance for people of the august 6, 1945 atomic bombing of the city. In japan, there is an old belief that a crane can l fori a thousand yearsve live 4000 years. If you fold 1000 paper cranes, they will protect you from illness