Museum
If you had to carry an entire day’s worth of food with you, what would you pack? What if you had to plan for weeks or months and for thousands of people?
These are questions the military must consider when preparing to send troops overseas, and when members of the National Guard are deployed in... Read more
Sixty-two years after the start of the American Revolution, on July 4, 1837, at the Independence Day celebration in Concord, Mass., the phrase the “shot heard round the world” was first uttered.
Coined by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his poem “Concord Hymn,” it refers to the first shot fired at the... Read more
On March 20, 2003 -- ten years ago today -- the ground invasion of Iraq began.
National Guard troops were a crucial part of the initial invasion, and by the time U.S. troops were withdrawn in December 2011, more than 286,000 Army and Air Guardsmen had served in Iraq. The Guard’s crucial... Read more
Over the last several months, the National Guard Memorial Museum has undergone a lot of changes. The addition of the 9/11 Era Gallery and the upcoming renovation of the Vietnam Era Gallery have been well documented in National Guard. But there have been other additions to the museum that are... Read more
It’s not every day you walk through a military museum and find a beekeeping uniform on display. But that is what you’ll find when you walk through the new 9/11 Era Gallery at the National Guard Memorial Museum. The uniform highlights a mission completely unique to the National Guard, one that... Read more