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 africanamericans. 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 cspan and city tours. Check out this website. Cspan. Org citytour. You are watching cspan 3 only on cspan 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 the memorial everyd
The collections are stored in these blue boxes. Next we visit the National Park Service Resource center to see a selection of items left at the wall. Hi. And workeum technician for the Vietnam Memorial out in maryland. Its for National Capital regions parks. Housed collection is entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects at a memorial in d. C. , the Vietnam Memorial. Come by the memorial every day and leave objects at the rangers which our park collect and then every two weeks or so, we do a pickup at the them out nd we bring here to our museum Resource Center and we sort through them catalog them and make them part of our collection. Some objects to show you from the collection. Hey kind of cover the range of the collection interprets. Theyre objects that will be on display and i think they are really good example of things in the this was part of the this mans s in Corporal Michael pedals room when he what you in high school. Note is from his brother but the you the co
One was hurt. Squaw valley firefighters say snow from this latest storm has created a very high to extreme level of avalanche risk in avalancheprone areas. Fire crews say a snowslide happened near the intersection of deer park road just before 7 15 a. M. On thursday. Crews say the slide hit an firefighters and Alpine Meadows cleared until noon, less than many of the main roads are now clear, but snow is melting in some parts of the valley and the mountains, causing a slick drive Amanda Ketchledge is live along robb drive with a look at conditions for drivers. Amanda, how it is out there . Kristen its very windy and cold. As the snow melts on the roads, temperatures are going to drop and ice will be forming. But take a look at this video that we shot earlier in the day. You can see how heavy the snow came down in some parts of the valley. Some drivers were taking it very slow on the roads, however nevada Highway Patrol says they were handling up to 20 accidents at a time this morning. T
Have more men could go overseas. She worked in washington, d. C. Where she worked as a payroll person. In the 1920s, the fears of immigrants which had been boiling during the time of the great migration to america started to come to a head and eventually leading to the johnson reed act of 1984 which effectively ended immigration by ins instituting quotas. This would of course become a very difficult thing, an obstacle ten years later when a lot of European Jews could have used another safe harbor during the rise of the nazis. The 1920s was a rise of antisemiti antisemitism, largely due to the immigration surge that had happened up until the 1920s. So here we talk a little bit about that, about henry fords antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich ar
Dedicating his flag to all the other men who are still missing in action or prisoners of war in vietnam. A lot of times veterans, if they want to come see the things that they left, we are always willing to give them a tour and show them around. It also helps us because we can connect specific names, donors to what they left. We have a big barrel that was left. I think it was left in 2002. I am too young to know what it was. But i have been told that in vietnam they used it as a letrine. An unfortunate soldier was given the job of burning it. But they came and they gave us a bit of context about what it was and when they left it and why. So thats really cool. Theres some donors who are still really active and want to see the things that they left. So this, as you may or may not know, is a roll of toilet paper. You may wonder why we have it in our collection. But toilet paper was as good as gold in vietnam, because if you were out in the field and you didnt have any toilet paper, you ha