Visiting the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum in St. Louis, Missouri , America could be interesting as many people irrespective of their ages troop in daily to feed their eyes on the weapons, materials and remnants of the instrum
ents used in the many wars the Americans had fought.
ents used in the many wars the Americans had fought.
Entrance to the building
MEMENTOS OF WARS
The two gigantic buildings used for the soldiers museum house all these war materials from the soldiers' personal effects to machine guns and letters sent from the war front.
The emotional one to this reporter are sections where pictures showed mothers who brought wreaths to the gravesides of their children who fought in the war was saddening.
Some mothers went to France to deposit wreaths on the gravesides of their beloved sons and daughters who died in France during the War II.
Photographs of hundreds of young men and women who prepared for war in defence of America and for their love of their fatherland ,America are on display. Also displayed were pictures of young men with rifles , and women working with the Red Cross Society who went to War to treat the wounded soldiers. Not only these as motion pictures, videos, visual aids, telegrams , telegraphic messages and old radio with messages could that break one's heart were there too. Listening to recorded messages and watching the videos being played could make one cry as the voice of the slain soldiers echo into one's ears. Sections where masks used against chemical weapons during the Vietnam war were on display.
The First World War started in July 28, 1914 and ended in November 11,1918 while the Second World War started in 1939 -1945.
The Vietnam War was between(November 1,1955 to April 30, 1975) which lasted 19 years and 180 days to April 30, 1975) but America got involved in 1965.With many lives lost of young men and women in the wars!
A young man whose name is Robbie spent time looking at pictures of some young men and women who died in the war and cried out of emotion '' What a painful thing to have our young children perished for a cause they did not know about. War is not the best solution to any crisis'', he wiped his misty eyes with a handkerchief''.
Another Tourist , a woman who declined to tell her name said '' this is a place of mourning , no matter what , many souls were gone in the name of defending our country and for unworthy cause '', as she sobbed.
But the Tourist Guide said it is not only war that killed these people .According to Jack , ''it is not only the war that killed many people when the war was going on, though many Louisans [ Natives of St.Louis in America) were sent to the war to fight in the American Revolution but those who died at home were many'', he said , nodding .
Speaking with the Tourist Guide Jack, who said he has spent some time working in the museum explained what happened in 1854, pointing to a map , he said '' you can see the stream flowing , that is the former Mill Creek , did you hear the story? .He began:
'' In the year 1854 about between 12,000 to 15000 thousand people in St. Louis died from cholera .It was saddening'', Jack said as he went down memory lane.( Research shows it was 1833 Cholera outbreak).
AFTERMATH OF THE POND
Asked what happened to the pond, Jack said ''the pond was filled up. Today, it is a route for trains to pass through,it became a main route of the West," the 64-year- old Tourist guide said.
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