Historic Sites
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Air Force Armament Museum Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
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At this museum, visitors can experience everything from aviation warfare armament from... |
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Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia
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Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia is a military cemetery... |
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California State Military Museum Sacramento, California
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With exhibits on every war from the Civil War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... |
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Castle Air Museum Atwater, California
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The aircraft displayed at the Castle Air Museum, planes like the B-17 Flying Fortress,... |
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Estrella Warbird Museum Paso Robles, California
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From jeeps, side arms, early year aircraft, fighter jets recently retired from active... |
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Idaho Military History Museum Boise, Idaho
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Exhibits at this museum founded in 1995 cover a large array of military related topics,... |
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Ptf 26 Liberty Sacramento, California
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Liberty, PTF-26, is the last of the Vietnam-Conflict "Fast Patrol Boats". The... |
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Texas Military Forces Museum Austin, Texas
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In a comprehensive history of the Texas Military, the Museum features exhibits pertaining... |
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Uss Turner Joy Bremerton, Washington
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The USS Turner Joy (DD-951), famed Navy destroyer from the Vietnam War, is now maintained... |
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Veterans Memorial Park And Wall South Pensacola, Florida
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Veterans Memorial Park/Wall South, a park to honor Veterans of all of America's wars. In... |
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Washington, District Of Columbia
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Deliberately setting aside the controversies of the war, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial... |
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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Madison, Wisconsin
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Wisconsin veterans are honored through this museum's exhibits on military history. The... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
