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Congressional charter, we were charged with telling the story of the entire American Experience in world war ii, how it was one, what it means today. Gallery, we get to the big moment where the United States and her allies had to win this particular day. Dday, june 6, 1944. Film narrated by tom brokaw. It gives our visitors the overarching story of dday at normandy. Leftto me over here on the is a very special exhibit. This is an exhibit case longated to bernie pyles thin line of anguish column. Beacheslly walked the at normandy, omaha beach, utah beach, where the American Forces landed. He saw all of the war left over by troops who had been killed coming ashore at the beach. What we have in this case is actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. He writes about what he found. You can see he talk about shoe polish, showing kids diaries, bibles, hand grenades, toothbrushes razors. He particularly singles out in his column writing paper. He talk about how young men who gave t
Conveys a notion of nostalgic and simplicity. It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity, where america was a world leader, and the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple, and it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth, and its a political construction. The 1950s, in fact, was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal that imposed gender hierarchies and mandated hetero sexuality in the law. It was a time in which anticommunism targeted the liberal reform impulses of the new deal and frequently an anticommunist took away civil liberties. These are all different areas of political pressures in terms of enforcing certain ideals and resisting against those that we will look at next week. But i like ike as a political construct shifted attention away from those divisions, and it created a sense of consensus. In
Because our museum was originally founded back in the 1990s as the National Dday museum. By a congressional charter, we would charge telling the story of the entire american experience. In this gallery we get to the big moment where United States and allies had to win this particular day. Dday june 6, 1944. Behind me is our film narratedded by narrated by tom brokaw. This is an exhibit case, a long thin line of language column. Ernie pile, walked the beaches at normandy. Where the American Forces landed. And he saw big everything from war, left over by troops who had been killed on the beach. What we have in this case, is artifacts, and send from utah and omaha beaches. Pile writes about what he found. You can see he talk about shoe polish, showing kids diaries, bibles, hand grenades, toothbrushes razors. He particularly singles out in his column writing paper. He talks about how young men who gave their lives at normandy, intended to write a lot of letters back home. The other thing t