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
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
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