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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcoming back Jeff Bonasso from Fox News Radio the program
I'm access to find out Jeff about this sounds so cool.
National Medal of Honor Museum is about to open.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right yes, Gary, Good morning. So. The National Medal of
Honor Museum is a one hundred thousand square foot structure
that sits in Arlington's Entertainment District and now houses the
names of more than thirty five hundred recipients of the
United States highest military award for valor, honoring their bravery,
their sacrifice. With the museum's mission, it's to honor America,
(00:36):
to celebrate the human spirit, and so this sounds pretty
cool to me. Visitors they're going to in addition to
finding memorabilia and personal effects of all of these recipients,
there's an exhibit called Moments in Action that really transforms
people to the battlefield where these awards were earned, and
(01:00):
people will be able to see equipment and machinery exhibits,
including a Vietnam era Huey helicopter, which basically the primary
use in Vietnam was with ambulance to rescue soldiers. You'll
be able to get up close and personal with medals
and the Medal of Valor recipients themselves. They're actually the
(01:24):
crown jewel of this collection because visitors using AI are
going to be able to hold real conversations with them.
Thirty two of the sixty one living Medal of Honor
recipients attended an event there over the weekend and many
of them sat down with AI technology and cameras and
(01:46):
answered hundreds of questions that people might have. And so
you could actually interact with these people on a screen
and ask them all sorts of questions and they'll be
able to answer them. And so obviously a very poignant
place in in in kind of a somber place.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It is well because you know, the the the inside
the building, just past the front doors. Uh, Their visitors
are graded with what's called the Ring of Valor with
all of the heroes names. Outside the building five pillars
that are integrated into the building's designed. They represent each
brand of the armed forces. And then once the sun
(02:29):
goes down, there's a beam of light that's going to
shine into the sky, much like the Twin Towers in
New York.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And officials call it the Perpetual Lights, ensuring that none
of the stories inside of the building are ever lost
to darkness.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is Uh, this is a bucket list item. I
can imagine for so many people that hearing about this
and it opens today. Is Jeff, is this a government project?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Uh, it's a it's a private project. And in more
than these cities trying to attract this museum. In the end,
it came down to either Arlington and Denver as a finalist.
But Arlington was chosen because it's centrally located and given
an easier access to to, you know, for all Americans
to visit. So definitely a bucket bucket list.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Arlington, Texas. That's a fabulous destination. The Dallas area. There's
so much to see there. This will be I'm going
to get a chance to see the World War Two
Museum in New Orleans next week. I've heard of fabulous
So that these are the kinds of things that we need,
we need in America. They love this.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And if you have the museum in a place where
there are already people, that's a huge plot. So often
we put museums off the beaten track, which means nobody
goes to them. But if this is where and it's
in an entertainment district, you'll get a lot of traffic.
There are twenty Nebraska natives who have won this medal
of honor, and a number of over seventy that are
from Nebraska, but twenty Nebraska natives that have won this thing.
(04:03):
So if you go down there, you check it out
and see. I'm sure they have all the information on
each one of them.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Indeed, thank you, sir. Always good to check. Jeff Monasso,
Fox News Radio here on kfab's Morning News and now
Jesse Kelly does a salute on Monday evenings on his
show to one of the metal honor I almost said
winners again, recipients. Yeah, you don't say winners, although they're
(04:28):
probably the greatest winners we've ever had with the greatest heroes. Well,
but it's it's unbelievable what these people sacrifice, what they've done.
If you hear the stories, and they're all online, you
can read them too. But this place here, I'll bet
you this is gonna be Yeah, I'll bet you that's one.
But you don't want to miss.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well if you if you care about this, you can go.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To Daley Plaza, go down to Dallas and figure out
where the other shooter was. You can do it. You know,
there's a lot to see in that.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, they got what Yeah, that's what you're gonna want
to just wander around Dalely Plaza and say I think
it came from that.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's what I did.
Welcoming back Jeff Bonasso from Fox News Radio the program
I'm access to find out Jeff about this sounds so cool.
National Medal of Honor Museum is about to open.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right yes, Gary, Good morning. So. The National Medal of
Honor Museum is a one hundred thousand square foot structure
that sits in Arlington's Entertainment District and now houses the
names of more than thirty five hundred recipients of the
United States highest military award for valor, honoring their bravery,
their sacrifice. With the museum's mission, it's to honor America,
(00:36):
to celebrate the human spirit, and so this sounds pretty
cool to me. Visitors they're going to in addition to
finding memorabilia and personal effects of all of these recipients,
there's an exhibit called Moments in Action that really transforms
people to the battlefield where these awards were earned, and
(01:00):
people will be able to see equipment and machinery exhibits,
including a Vietnam era Huey helicopter, which basically the primary
use in Vietnam was with ambulance to rescue soldiers. You'll
be able to get up close and personal with medals
and the Medal of Valor recipients themselves. They're actually the
(01:24):
crown jewel of this collection because visitors using AI are
going to be able to hold real conversations with them.
Thirty two of the sixty one living Medal of Honor
recipients attended an event there over the weekend and many
of them sat down with AI technology and cameras and
(01:46):
answered hundreds of questions that people might have. And so
you could actually interact with these people on a screen
and ask them all sorts of questions and they'll be
able to answer them. And so obviously a very poignant
place in in in kind of a somber place.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It is well because you know, the the the inside
the building, just past the front doors. Uh, Their visitors
are graded with what's called the Ring of Valor with
all of the heroes names. Outside the building five pillars
that are integrated into the building's designed. They represent each
brand of the armed forces. And then once the sun
(02:29):
goes down, there's a beam of light that's going to
shine into the sky, much like the Twin Towers in
New York.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
And officials call it the Perpetual Lights, ensuring that none
of the stories inside of the building are ever lost
to darkness.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This is Uh, this is a bucket list item. I
can imagine for so many people that hearing about this
and it opens today. Is Jeff, is this a government project?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Uh, it's a it's a private project. And in more
than these cities trying to attract this museum. In the end,
it came down to either Arlington and Denver as a finalist.
But Arlington was chosen because it's centrally located and given
an easier access to to, you know, for all Americans
to visit. So definitely a bucket bucket list.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Arlington, Texas. That's a fabulous destination. The Dallas area. There's
so much to see there. This will be I'm going
to get a chance to see the World War Two
Museum in New Orleans next week. I've heard of fabulous
So that these are the kinds of things that we need,
we need in America. They love this.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And if you have the museum in a place where
there are already people, that's a huge plot. So often
we put museums off the beaten track, which means nobody
goes to them. But if this is where and it's
in an entertainment district, you'll get a lot of traffic.
There are twenty Nebraska natives who have won this medal
of honor, and a number of over seventy that are
from Nebraska, but twenty Nebraska natives that have won this thing.
(04:03):
So if you go down there, you check it out
and see. I'm sure they have all the information on
each one of them.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Indeed, thank you, sir. Always good to check. Jeff Monasso,
Fox News Radio here on kfab's Morning News and now
Jesse Kelly does a salute on Monday evenings on his
show to one of the metal honor I almost said
winners again, recipients. Yeah, you don't say winners, although they're
(04:28):
probably the greatest winners we've ever had with the greatest heroes. Well,
but it's it's unbelievable what these people sacrifice, what they've done.
If you hear the stories, and they're all online, you
can read them too. But this place here, I'll bet
you this is gonna be Yeah, I'll bet you that's one.
But you don't want to miss.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well if you if you care about this, you can go.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
To Daley Plaza, go down to Dallas and figure out
where the other shooter was. You can do it. You know,
there's a lot to see in that.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, they got what Yeah, that's what you're gonna want
to just wander around Dalely Plaza and say I think
it came from that.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's what I did.
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