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Heritage. We preserve those pieces of our heritage even if they are difficult story to tell like segregation that visitors whether they are from the u. S. Or abroad or caucasian or africanamericans. You better understand the stories where they are standing in place where these echt happens. You can feel the history resonating by being in this american history. We feature Historic Sites and National Parks from cspan and city tours. Check out this website. Cspan. Org citytour. You are watching cspan 3 only on cspan 3 tv. The vietnam veteran includes an estimated of 400,000 items left at the memorial since it opened 1982. The collection were stored in these new boxes. Next, we visit the resources so see if tli any items left booind behind. I work for the vietnam collection which is housed here. The building overall, but, housing collections specifically and housed entirely in th ....
Symposium at fords theater last year. Ford leader and the Abraham Lincoln institute cohosted this event. It is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon. Im a professor and chairperson of the department of history at howard university. Good afternoon. Im the chairperson of the department of history at howard university. Weve had a Wonderful Program thus far. Thank you for returning for the afternoon session. I think youll be delighted with what we have in store for you. Its my happy task to introduce our next speaker, professor of history, new york university. Professor hodes is the author of the sea captains wife. A true story of love, race and war in the 19th century which was a 2006 finalist in the lincoln book prize. The 1997 winner of the allen nevins prize. Her most recent work warning lincoln which was published this year is already garnering praise. Reviewers have describe ....
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. ....
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