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From basketball, but mostly he was there to listen. He had good words of encouragement and lifted us up when were down. I look at him as a hero, as someone i look up to. Reporter mcraes son is in d. C. s fire cadet program. His friends say hes still planning to become a firefighter after graduating in june. He always wanted to be a firefighter just like his father and i quote to be just like my dad. Reporter but they also know losing his dad isnt easy. Hes not doing so good. Hes trying, though. Reporter some of those students are behind me tore they will be. Theres a or they will be. Theres a ...

Conservation program. These two flags are perfect examples of that where we have been able to have these flags conserved so they will not deteriorate any further than that. It is an expensive process to have done. It can cost 20 to 30,000. We have been fortunate to have supporters step forward to help us with these. Some of them might have ancestors that fought for those particular units. So its something personal to them. But we still have a lot of the flags that have not been conserved like this that we cannot display this way. We have some that we can display in some of the drawers over her...

Effectively ending the civil war. Next, we visit appomattox to see items related to the surrender. We also toured the museums exhibits. Linda lipscomb welcome Linda Lipscomb welcome to the museum. The museum here has been open for almost three years now. And we are an extension of the museum that was originally founded in 1890, opened in 1896 in richmond, virginia. We house here a lot of the artifacts that were from the confederates. We will tell you about how we got some of those artifacts. Here, we kind of focus on appomattox since we are in this location. One of the things people ask us abo...

Der at eight an mat i then a ceremony marking the exact time 150 years ago that generals grant and lee met to discuss terms of surrender. After that is correct well hear from two living historians who portray the generals at the ceremony. And later, remarks on the leg of appotomax with historians. Each week american artifacts takes viewers to his forrics sites around the country. On april 9th 1865, confederate general robert e. Lee met ulysses s. Grant and sun rendered his arm of north virginia effectively ending the civil war. Next we visit the confederacy in a appotomax appotomax. Welcome to...

I see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. And in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. Every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. Each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of ...