Medal of Honor Museum

Keith Hardison talks about the opening of the Charles Coolidge Medal of Honor Heritage Center this weekend.

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This week, and how excited oh well.

We're beyond excited.

We've got 15 to 20 medal of honor recipients coming in the governor's coming to speak were expecting the thousand people for the opening ceremony.

It's really going to be a a bigger act activity and we've waited the medal of honor centers been around in one form or another since 1987 this time were going.

Bake 20 times the originals where so excited for this will give you all the information on how you can be a part of the grand opening and visit the exhibit soon.

I'm talk about ho unique this museum is a course so i'm looking for to begin to be interactive.

It's going to b beautiful to the eye average in his knowing.

In fact that's what we use the term heritage center the average history museum says come see our stuff.

We say come be a part of the store and were talking about characteristics o the medal of honor recipients.

Of course, chattanooga is the one and only birthplace of the medal of honor 52 of them received here in the civil war ... at the ms the history and appeared to we talked with a history of multiple visits with them is down, but that is why canada absolutely, absolutely.

You have people like the arthur macarthur douglas macarthur son they were a father, son team of recipients.

That's unusual how we talk about the great locomotive chase.

The andrews writers.

That's where it all started and we go to modern luminaries such as charles h coolidge 98 years old.

The oldest living recipient only two left world war ii.

He's going t be there along with the youngest recipient kyle carpenter from afghanistan and a and a host of others, and this is not just look at the artifacts we got some great but we also have the banks that you participate in we've regraded for instance in the in the facility.

We rebuilt actual rage nesmith sauces on top of that that sort of thing you cannot tie the knot, you can lift the weights getting a feel for what it was like for desmond off to raisin to lower people down at the cliff in okinawa and having his interactive element being part of the story as he makes the perfect for the entire family that you have a little bit from the extra for our younger character development program will get to two varieties of character development, one for the third through fifth grade.

We call character club we use recipient interviews.

We also use cartoon and dividends.

The goal is to have six lessons at a school or youth and family development center had your seventh lesson on site for the older group we have.

The character development program is developed.

The medal of honor society and we do that middle school, high school jrotc it's a very popular against something for all ages was interested in participating in those programs. as a teacher or just a school representative need to reach out to reach out to our hannah scheer at sag are our director of education.

She coordinates all of those programs. we also want folks to work the borders in a couple ways we will come down.

You can go to ww wm oh hc.org/tickets.

Buy your tickets.

We suggest yo do that online.

Because we expect there will be a line so you can just walk in.

If you do it that way.

We also have membership to give a free admission for a year we started $25 go up to 85.

Our basic bishop and 85 for a family of eight is a really really good.

That is, that really is what happenings saturday the official grand opening celebration type activity can we well were going to have ceremony to blowout all ceremonies were going to have course, gov.

Lee is going to speak were going to have 15 to 20 actual medal of honor recipients from across america.

We're going to have descendents of tennessee malabar recipient such as paul huff for his widow at 95 years old will be there.

We have sgt.

George children lived in embodiments, children, and so there 40 to 50 descendents of deceased medal of honor recipients that have a connection to tennessee who are going to be there.

You can meet those people we got an air force quintet playing with at the hawaii school chorus that singing and a lot of pop and pageantry and then you know we all go in the center and enjoy right now.

This is our opportunity to be one of the first to kathy walked through the center consequence of it an ask.

The living history in many ways as if you're not able to join us for the grand opening ceremony on the heritage center will be open to the public officially at 1 pm on saturday and then will be open for the days following that are many many many days to come after drinking 19 tickets are recommended be pre-purchased online at m088 be pre-purchased online at m0888.more, but some will be available at the door the line i am online.

We will talk to you against their congratulation you