Each week american artifacts. Up next in the second of the two part program we travel to new orleans we travel to the museum. Beginning with the june 6th 1944 dday invasion. Because our museum was originally founded back in the 1990s as the National Dday museum. By a congressional charter we would charge telling the story of the entire american experience. In this gallery we get to the big moment where United States and allies had to win this particular day. Dday june 6, 1944. Behind me is our film narratedded by narrated by tom brokaw. He saw all of the war left over by troops who had been killed coming ashore at the beach. What we have in this case is actual artifacts and sand from utah and omaha beaches. He writes about what he found. You can see he talk about shoe polish showing kids diaries, bibles, hand grenades, toothbrushes razors. He particularly singles out in his column writing paper. He talk about how young men who gave their lives at normandy intended to write a lot of let
Visits museums and historic places. Next, a visit to the u. S. Armys archives in carlisle, pennsylvania, to learn about their soldier experience gallery, which traces army history from the 1898 spanish american war to the present. Welcome to the u. S. Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle, pennsylvania. My name is carl warren. Im going to show you around today. This is the part of the facility more like a museum rather than an artifact archives or Storage Facility. Its our way to show the American Public the sort of materials we have here, so you can understand army history, whether youre a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was n
History from the 1898 spanishamerican war to the present. Welcome to the u. S. Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle, pennsylvania. Im carl warren, im going to show you around today. This is the part of the facility more like a museum rather than an artifact archives or storage facility. Its our way to show the American Public the sort of materials we have here so you can understand army history, whether youre a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was not ready to go to war at this period of time, when the u. S. S. Maine exploded in havana harbor and cubans rebelled against the span ir, everything came to a head and we declared war
Materials we have here so you can understand army history, whether youre a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was not ready to go to war at this period of time when the u. S. S. Maine exploded in havana harbor and cubans rebelled against the span ir, everything came to a head and we declared war on spain. Spain declared war on us and the war started in earnest in a lot of soldiers enlisted all at once. We didnt have any sort of underlying setup, any sort of logistics ready to go to supply all these soldiers. So between not being able to ply the soldiers to begin with but going to war any way and seeing the consequences of the spanish ameri
Have these men and women in uniform here on fox square with us. Even hearing this music, i feel like when i listen to patriotic music every time i cry. It does something to you. Weve got so soldiers here al weekend long. Sends your photos of the Service Members, particularly the ones that we can honor if they have paid the ultimate sacrifice. My heart goes out to gold star families. Were so grateful for you. We learn so much from your courage and strength. Those who go on to pay tribute to their legacy. Were grateful for you. Were going to have a couple of gold star folks on the Program Later today. No better show when it comes to memorial day than fox friends. Lets remember those that you know. President trump and the first lady are out for dinner with the japanese Prime Minister. The president is in tokyo to discuss trade and security with our two countries. Garrett tinny is live with the information. Trade is the leading topic of this trip, particularly with japan trying to avoid an