Firearms museum in fairfax, virginia, to see its collection of guns and learn the role that far arms have played over the course of American History. Welcome to the nra National Farms exam. Im the museums director. Were going to go through the museum. Take a look at the history of americans and their farms. We will start with the earliest precolonial days. Go up to a current time. We will look at the role that farms played in terms of the settlement, expansion of america, the role firearms played in the military and sporting and personal shooting roles. Well see the guns of champions. The guns of president s and heroes. We will see some great piece of art. Fire arm engraving on a steel canvas. The National Firearms museum is that and are a headquarters in fairfax, virginia. The museum has existed itself for nearly eight years and we have been in this location for nearly 15. We are custodians of about 7000 firearms that have been donated to us relent to over the past 35 years. We have a
Making business in michigan. Hes not married. So he sits down with his mom to write out his final will and testament now. He is a fairly talented individually starts off as a Company Commander after two years a war though. Now he is the colonel of the fourth, michigan. Between the battle of gettysburg in the battle that happens right before gettysburg two months prior harrison goes home on leave. So he has a vacation of about two weeks while hes home the town members join him as he gets ready to hop on the train and head back to his unit and they present the unit with a brand new flag and you can see the battle flag in this picture about a flags are important the American Civil War and a time when command and control is as loud as you can yell as fast as you can ride a horse or send around with a note in the smoking noise of battle when the big flag goes forward. Wed go forward when the big flag goes back we fall back so you never wanted to lose your flag. Not only because of the ensui
Before gettysburg two months prior harrison goes home on leave. So he has a vacation of about two weeks while hes home the town members join him as he gets ready to hop on the train and head back to his unit and they present the unit with a brand new flag and you can see the battle flag in this picture about a flags are important the American Civil War and a time when command and control is as loud as you can yell as fast as you can ride a horse or send around with a note in the smoking noise of battle when the big flag goes forward. Wed go forward when the big flag goes back we fall back so you never wanted to lose your flag. Not only because of the ensuing confusion that would cause all so because we had all joined as a Community People from our community had died defending that flag, and you never your flag. After two years of war the fourth michigan flag was fairly shot up. And so the townspeople show up and present Harrison Jeffords with a brand new flag for his regiment and he pl
The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
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