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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 ParkService 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 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 VeteransMemorial 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. Tha ....
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 who have 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 the wall in the 1990s. This is part of a door that was in this mans room when he was in maybe high school or so. The note is from his bro ....
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 ....
We have a topic today that, we think, is one of the best we have come up with. It is a neglected civil war story because of the neglected march on georgia. There is little bit less attention on his other march, which followed that march. Take a look at this scowling man in that fantastic coke, as we begin talking about him. So, i am going to talk to john. Who, as you heard, has written two wonderful books about william sherman. And i think we need to know, i dont know how you can do in a few minutes, we need to know who this guy was . His family, psyche. Tell us something about this fellow in the doublebreasted uniform. John this picture that you see was taken of sherman. He did not want to have it taken. He is not a happy camper. This is not the best picture of him. But its very briefly, sherman has a very difficult childhood. His father dies and he is nine years all. He goes to live with a neighbor, while his mother is living just up the street because she simply cannot afford to tak ....