Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. The Vietnam Veterans memorial has 400,000 items left since it was opened in 1982. They are stored in these blue boxes. We visit the National Park Service Resource center to examine items left at the wall. Hi. My name is janet donlon. I work specifically for the Vietnam Veterans memorial collection housed here in the museum Resource Center and landover, maryland. The building 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 collect
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Im the ceo of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. I will be your master of ceremonies today. It is my pleasure to be the first to welcome you to the veterans day ceremony at the wall. Before we begin the formal program, i would like to the gold starof family members we have with us here today. Fathers, wives, siblings, spouses, nieces, nephews, and sons and daughters in touch. All of those who experienced the loss of a loved one and know all too well of the sacrifices that our military families make. To those still waiting for the return of their loved ones who are listed as missing. Thank you for joining us. [applause] id also like to take a moment to thank the wall volunteers, they are the folks you see in the Yellow Jackets and hats. Of the Vietnam Veter
[indistinct chattering] [indistinct chattering] the funeral mass for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a has come to an end here at the basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and washington, d. C. Justice scalia will now be laid , thest at a private burial location for that burial has not been announced. The justice is survived by his wife, maureen, 9 children, and many grandchildren. Every weekend on American History tv on cspan3, feature programs that tell the american story. Some of the highlights for this weekend include this afternoon at 2 00 eastern, president Woodrow Wilson nominated a boston lawyer to the u. S. Supreme court great he became the first jewish justice to sit on the nations highest court. Of hismoration nomination, Brandeis University in massachusetts hosted a panel, including ruth bader ginsburg, to discuss his contributions to american democracy. At 6 55, professor joanne discusses the evolution of Political Parties and partnership. Sunda
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