each week american history tv s 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 f
this is the way it looked in newport delaware this evening, the end of a wet and dreary day. it s friday night. the big story on action news is a flood watch in effect for the tristate area until 2:00 a.m. let s check out the weather with cecily tynan. double scan showing rain has ended across the region. showers are moving east, heavy snow in new england. for us, the rain is gone, so there is still flooding. we have a flooding for east branch and brandywine. it s dropping but still above flood stage. we have minor flooding there and an advisory along the i-95 corridor areas north and west and mercer county under advisory for flooding, ponding of water on roads, near low-lying areas creeks and ponds, close to half an inch, wilmington two and a half, allentown 1.73. atlantic city, nearly an inch and a half of rain. going to the weekend, we are trying to dry out. the clouds are winning out over sunshine. sun returns sunday making a run at 60-degrees. two more storms on the
going to the weekend, we are trying to dry out. the clouds are winning out over sunshine. sun returns sunday making a run at 60-degrees. two more storms on the way next week. details on that in the accuweather forecast. jim? cecily, thank you. police say the foul weather contributed to a deadly crash. a man in his 60 was driving north in the white car, lost control and hit a car head on. he was killed. the 20 something driver of the other car is in critical condition at the temple university hospital. a woman killed tonight was part of a murder-suicide by her husband. dan, what kind of information are you getting there? jim, indications are, according to police, that this was the end of a domestic dispute. police officers have a good idea what happened. it left neighbors and friends in shock. it s very shocking. it s awful. things happen, you know. police say a man arrived home just before 4:00 to find his mother and father in a pool of blood upstairs bedroom. robin
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 african-americans. 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 c-span and city tours. check out this website. c-span.org/citytour. you are watching c-span 3 only on c-span 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 this building. we are watching objects that are left in the medicmorial dc. visitors come from
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 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, 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 wa