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Army News Service: New Smithsonian exhibit honors veterans, Nov. 12, 2004
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Retired Staff Sgt. Lester I. Tenney, 84, gazed at his World War II photo that was on display at the Smithsonian and remembered living through the Bataan Death March in the Philippines.
Tenney was on hand with veterans and high-ranking government officials at the Museum of American History in Washington Wednesday for the launch of a new permanent exhibit titled "The Price of Freedom, Americans at War."
The 18,200 square-foot exhibit - the most comprehensive display of American military history in the country - features more than 850 artifacts and pays tribute to the men and women who have served in uniform from the Revolutionary War to the Global War on Terror.
Highlights of the exhibition include one of the few uniforms from the American Revolution, the jacket and ribbons worn by Audie Murphy, a Huey 091 flown in Vietnam that was reassembled in the museum, and the uniform worn by Gen. Colin Powell in the Gulf War. ...
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Smithsonian Institute: The Price of Freedom
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