Family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collection had the very first recorded audio oral history of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course, the spanishamerican war, we have the title the great adventure because the army was not ready to go to war at this point in time. When the u. S. S. Maine exploded in havana harbor, everything came to a head and the war started in earnest. A lot of soldiers enlisted all at once. We didnt have any sort of going to war anyway, and then seeing the consequences of the spanish american war afterwards. Kind of fore shadowed the americans ability to fight war. So we start with the spanish american war and move on through and show different soldiers stories throughout the exhibit. The great part about these exhibits is that we can show different soldiers stories over time and switch them out very easily to get our massive collection of artifacts a
Cara Johns and Trinity Richards are among 28 people wounded. “These girls are like family to all of us,’’ said Amy Traff, whose daughters cheered with the two.