OK, folks, a somewhat similar yet different posting than I have been doing lately. Mrs J and I had a little time on our hands (OK a LOT of time on our hands) and decided to do a bit of exploration of things in our new city of residence. So, it's a Sunday Afternoon, there's a Soccer game between Argentina and Honduras in Texas A&M's football stadium (US Football stadium). 91,102 people showed up. This meant that 91,102 people would not be driving around looking for things to do. So, it was remarkably quiet and relaxing.
We decided we'd visit the Texas Museum of the American G.I. which is just south of town. There was a lot of cool paraphernalia there ranging back to just after the Civil War all the way up through Afghanistan. Uniforms, weapons, cooking paraphernalia, everything an army would need to conduct a campaign .
There was one exhibit that sobered me quite a bit.
These were the dogtags or replica's of dogtags of Texas Veterans killed in the Vietnam War. All of them donated by the families who had lost relatives or friends there.
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Talk about sobering. 3417 are presently there. I would suspect there are many more not displayed yet.
In any case, this is an excellent museum. Lots of guides all over the museum who can answer just about any question you might have about it. Well designed, the flow is smooth and easy to get around. Highly recommend a visit (even if you have to fly from Rhode Island, just sayin’).
Peace out y'all!
Sources you might find interesting
https://americangimuseum.org/
https://americangimuseum.org/discover/exhibits/texas-heroes-exhibit/
Quite the effort and thought present at that museum juvat, way too many dog tags there too........58,220 total for the whole war.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, "way too many dog tags" is a usual outcome of war. It's needed sometimes, but the cost is high.
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I have been to the Nimitz museum, Juvat, but had no idea this existed. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThe Nimitz is a Smithsonian class museum and very, very interesting. I've visited it often. This one isn't in that class, but still very good. The Docents know their stuff and are happy to answer stupid questions. It was also obvious that most of the visitors had some "experience" behind them about some of the displays. So, come visit, you get at least two afternoons with something to do. And the restaurant selection in the town is out of this world.
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juvat
What an awesome museum. I visited their website and was particularly struck by their vehicle collection, all of which are in running order! And you know how I am about tanks!
ReplyDeleteI've added them to the Tail Numbers, Museums, and Records over on the sidebar.
I thought you might be interested. C'mon down, as they say down here.
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Thank you! There are an amazing number of all sorts of little museums scattered around the country.
ReplyDeleteJoe, you’re right! Smaller museums are great, you can pretty much take it all in and remember it. Smithsonian sized museums overwhelm me and I don’t remember a lot of exhibits in them. More’s the pity.
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Good recommendations!
ReplyDeleteThis being (check calendar) Monday, I though maybe an update on holes in the ground being filled with dollars or concrete, etc. But that deserves a separate post when you get done filling in the void left by Sarge's sojourn. Excellent posts, but when dealing with folks who earned the MOH, you got a lot of really great stuff to work with.
JB
That is a nice little museum. I've visited it before.
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