Visit the Veterans Memorial Museum in Branson MO
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My wife and I have been to Branson, Missouri, several times and have seen many enjoyable shows and sights. On our most recent trip, a few years ago, we saw something special: the Veterans Memorial Museum.
The museum doesn't have the happy beat of Ozark music or the nostalgia of the 50s. It doesn't have the history in Branson that "The Shepherd of the Hills" play and Silver Dollar City have. What the Veterans Memorial Museum does offer is a chance to reflect on the men and women of our nation who fought and died to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. Branson was a natural place to build such a museum because the town itself celebrates patriotism in many of the shows that are presented inits theaters.
To walk into the Veterans Museum is to leave the world of recreation and enter into a world where life and death decisions were made. It was a reminder not to take for granted the American way of life.
The Veterans Museum is the brainchild of Fred Hoppe, a well-known sculptor, who was inspired by the stories of war he heard from his father, Fred Hoppe, Sr., himself a World War II veteran.
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My wife and I have been to Branson, Missouri, several times and have seen many enjoyable shows and sights. On our most recent trip, a few years ago, we saw something special: the Veterans Memorial Museum.
The museum doesn't have the happy beat of Ozark music or the nostalgia of the 50s. It doesn't have the history in Branson that "The Shepherd of the Hills" play and Silver Dollar City have. What the Veterans Memorial Museum does offer is a chance to reflect on the men and women of our nation who fought and died to give us the freedoms we enjoy today. Branson was a natural place to build such a museum because the town itself celebrates patriotism in many of the shows that are presented inits theaters.
To walk into the Veterans Museum is to leave the world of recreation and enter into a world where life and death decisions were made. It was a reminder not to take for granted the American way of life.
The Veterans Museum is the brainchild of Fred Hoppe, a well-known sculptor, who was inspired by the stories of war he heard from his father, Fred Hoppe, Sr., himself a World War II veteran.
Read the rest of the story here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/395789/visit_the_veterans_memorial_museum.html?singlepage=true&cat=16
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