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The National Park Service has the honor of preserving battlefields, military parks, and historic sites that commemorate and honor the service of American veterans. The ideals and freedoms they fought for are remembered throughout the National Park System in areas as diverse as King’s Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina, Fort McHenry National Monument in Maryland, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park in Virginia, USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii, and War in the Pacific National Historical Park in Guam. The National Park Service has developed and made available a web site to help plan visits to NPS sites that preserve the military and veteran heritage of our nation. By logging onto the Honor America’s Veterans at Battlefields and Military Park Preserved in the National Park System website at: www.nps.gov/pub_aff/veterans/honor.htm, people can learn of the many special places managed by the National Park Service. In addition to a list of national park sites, the web site includes information and web links to books and documents related to the theme of battlefields and military parks. For more information about this web site, contact Gerry Gaumer at (202) 208-6843.
The National Park Service’s history web site provides a great variety of historical documents. It emphasizes the educational value of historic places and the importance of the stories that connect us to them. Collectively, these places present an American history textbook, a textbook that educates us about the people, events, buildings, objects, landscapes, and artifacts of the American past and about the aspirations and actions that produced those tangible survivors. More than 600 books, studies, and reports, ranging from The Allies at Yorktown: A Bicentennial History of the Siege of 1781 to The Role of History in Managing NPS Areas, are posted online courtesy of the National Park Service’s Park History program. Web site: cr.nps.gov/history/park_histories/index.htm.
LAST UPDATED: November 7, 2006