WW1 MUSEUM
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About The Museum
This museum is the only ww1 museum in the united states. The museum itsself is composed of thousands of artifacts that were actually from ww1. There is something to do here for everyone, and the museum itsself is very educational. This trip, in my opinion, was a very good trip and I think they should take it every year.
When you enter the museum there is this very large glass bridge. Underneath it is 9000 poppy plants, and each one represents 1000 people who died during the war. Now, the poppy is a plant to represent the war, because no matter how bad it got in the trenches these flowers grew back through the mud and hell.
The Tower
This was the tower on top of the museum. It was 216 ft tall and you could see the whole city from the top.
Our Flag
A flag in the museum that was actually hung in the war, it only has 48 stars because Hawaii and Alaska were not yet part of the US
Uniforms
These are uniforms ACTUALLY WORN in the war, they are much smaller that usual because men were much smaller during the time.
FACTS I LEARNED AT THE WW1 MUSEUM
- Men were much smaller during WW1. Men were usually 5'5 and 130 pounds.
- Walt Disney drove an ambulance during the war
- A pilots life expectancy was 6 weeks, if they made it out of training
- They used mules to carry artillery
- About 65 million fought and over 9 million died
This is medical equipment actually used during the war. The survival rate during the war was low, 30% of arm wounds resulted in death.
Medicine
More Medicine used in the war. One of the first prosthetic was invented in WW1
Airplanes
A plane from the war, it was actually made of canvas and wood. If you got hit by something your plane was most likely ruined, even little things could wreck a plane.
Trenches
This is what the inside of a trench looked like, if it were a good trench. There could be rats the size of cats running through these. If a ran ran away from a trench that meant that war was coming. Also, rats were a good food source, because there was so much of a shortage during WW1
What Did Everyone Else Think?
Everyone I asked said that they enjoyed this museum just as much as me. My classmates thought the museum was very informative and that it was a good trip. My classmate Khaila Slye said the museum was a lot of fun and she learned a lot. She also said she would want to go again and be able to explore more of the museum.