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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 throug...

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 ...

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 abo...

The National Park service. I work specifically for the Vietnam Veterans memorial collection, which is housed here in the Museum Resource center. The building is for the National Capital region parks. But our collection specifically is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at a memorial in d. C. , Vietnam Veterans memorial. Visitors come by every day, leave objects at the memorial 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 our moo zeal Resource Center where we sourt through th...

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