Service Resource Center to examine items left at the wall. High. My name is janet donlon. For thepecifically Vietnam Veterans memorial collection housed here in the museum Resource Center and landover, maryland. Is a facility for the National Capital region parks. Our collection specifically is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at the memorial, the Vietnam Veterans memorial. People come by the memorial every day and leave objects at the memorial which our park rangers collect. Every two weeks or so we do a pickup. We bring them out here to our Resource Center where he sort through them and catalog them and make them part of our collection. I have chosen some objects to show you from the collection. They cover the range of topics the collection interprets, including ptsd, mothers and fathers, lost children. They will be going on display soon and i think they are really good examples of the type of things in the collection. This was left at th
Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfortunate soldier was given the job of burning it. But they came and they gave us a bit of context about what it was and when they left it and why. So thats really cool. Theres some donors who are still really active and want to see the things that they left. So this, as you may or may not know, is a roll of toilet paper. You may wonder why we have it in our collection. But toilet paper was as good as gold in vietnam, because if you were out in the field and you didnt have any toilet paper, you ha
The National Park service. I work specifically for the Vietnam Veterans memorial collection, which is housed here in the Museum Resource center. The building is for the National Capital region parks. But our collection specifically is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at a memorial in d. C. , Vietnam Veterans memorial. Visitors come by every day, leave objects at the memorial which our park rangers collect. And then every two weeks or so, we do a pickup at the memorial. We bring them out here to our moo zeal Resource Center where we sourt through them and catalog them and make them part of our collection. I have chosen objects to show you from the collection. They kind of cover the range of topics that the collection interprets, including ptsd, mothers and fathers who lost children. They are objects that will go on display soon. They are good examples of the tin things in the collection. This was left at the wall in the 90s. This is part of
Back to you. Betty weve got more on the markets. Tell us more about how the averages are doing. We are in the green. Lets go ahead. Lets look at the markets right now. The s p and nasdaq are all about flat. We had been higher earlier today. It looks like we are paring off some of the losses. We did see oil traded in the green. News of the u. S. Economy expanded, its at 2 on an annualized rate. Thes take a look at function on the terminal. Lets see how the sectors are performing in the first half hour of trade. Energy is of the most high 710 area 7 10 of 1 . Some of these losses are increasing information tech, securities and financials. They are down nominally in the negative 10th of percent or so. Lets go over to crude. Crude has been taking a pause from the fall weve been reporting. Traders are looking ahead to tomorrows eia inventory report. Rose 1 million. Supplies are 130 Million Barrels above the fiveyear average. Morgan stanley has said we are rebalancing and that might not happ
They are all here helping us break this down. Unfortunately, this microphone is now on my person. How about we get to some first word news with vonnie quinn. Vonnie thank you. Tog an end to serious syrias war, the talks will begin next month. The talks dont mention the syrian president , western power wants about but the russian power back him. The International Organization for migration is saying that the total is four times higher than oft year, for fifth 4 5 them arrive by c. Encourages the private sector to offer humanitarian aid. Ted cruz is gaining on donald trump in the race. He is four Percentage Points behind. Their rivals are far back from them. Voting starts six weeks from now in iowa. Brees. Ilestone for drew he has given 60,000 career yards, more than four miles. That is your first word update. Matt taking a look at the Index Futures, you can see not a lot of movement this morning. If you look at what happened overnight in asian stocks, we had a little bit of a lift after