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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection 20161125

Tomorrow American History tv is for more information about our travels, youre watching American History tv, all week gen and on holidays, too, only on cspan3. Each were american artifacts visits the vietnam collection since it opened in 1982. The collection are we visit the National Parks resource center. To see a selection of items left at the wall. Hi, my name is janet donlin. I work specifically for the Vietnam Veterans memorial collection, which is housed herous in landover, maryland. Its a center curatorial facilities for the capitol region parks, but the collection is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at a memorial in d. C. , the Vietnam Veterans memorial. Visit ovrs come by the memorial every day, leave objects which our park rangers collect, and then every two weeks or so we do a pickup at the memorial, we bring them out here to the Museum Resource center, where we sort through them, and catalog them and make them a part of our colle

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection 20160825

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

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection 20160227

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

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection 20160326

Hes on the wall. So this flag and note were left on veterans day 1992, the tenyear anniversary of the wall. And it was left by john parks, who was a prisoner of war for five years in vietnam. He coincidentally has done an oral history project for the library of congress, which is very interesting. You can hear about his experience as a prisoner of war. But he left this flag, which was presented to him upon his return to the United States after he was released. On it is a crucifix, which he made out of a tooth paste tube, and the tie is from his prison uniform. And right here, theres a pin for the pow mia, which is prisoners of war missing in action. And the note is essentially saying hes dedicating his flag to all the other men who are 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 really helps us, because we can connect specific names

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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

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