January-February 2005 Newsletter, Disabled American Veterans, Department of New York

Disabled American Veterans Department of New York, 200 Atlantic Avenue, Lynbrook, New York 11563

NEWSLETTER
A Publication for Members of the Disabled American Veterans Dept. of NY
January-February 2005

"PRICE OF FREEDOM"
American History Museum Exhibit Opens

by Sidney Siller, Sr., PDC, Department Adjutant

On November 11, 2004, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History opened a permanent new exhibition titled "The Price of Freedom." The history of the United States military from the Colonial era to the present is covered by displays and exploring ways that wars have been defining episodes in American History.

Using more than 700 original artifacts, graphic images, and interactive stations, the exhibit will tell stories of how Americans have fought to establish the nation's independence, determine its borders, shape its values of freedom and opportunity, and define its leading role in world affairs.

Displays tell stories of how women and children as well as men have been a part of the nation's military history. Young people will have a range of hands-on opportunities to explore the soldiers experience in different eras. Interpreters in period costumes will engage the audience and answer questions.

As visitors enter the gallery, they will be transported back in time to 1756 and proceed through history to the conflicts of today. Visitors will get to see the military objects of those early times in our history right up to (selected) military objects of the present.

Visitors will gain a better understanding of the sacrifices that have been made by veterans, families and the country as a whole will realize that "freedom is not free."

The exhibition's major sections on the following wars are:

The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
Afghanistan and Iraq

When you have the opportunity to travel to Washington, DC, make the time to visit this wonderful exhibit. Take along your family, the trip is well worth the time.

The National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., The museum is not open on December 25th. For more information, click here to visit the museum's web site or you can call (202) 633-1000, (202) 357-1729(TTY).

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