Visitors then come to the harrowing experience that puts them in the middle of the two world wars.  Our WWI section features a trench and no man’s land in which visitors will be able to point and aim a German WWI machine gun.  Guests will quickly walk into the WWII section and be greeted by a parachuting Paul Huff, the first paratrooper Medal of Honor recipient and Desmond Doss’s Hacksaw Ridge.  Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who did not shoot a firearm, is famous for rescuing seventy-five men – lowering them one by one down the jagged cliffs of Hacksaw Ridge in Okinawa, Japan.  Visitors will see a recreation of these cliffs and by able to try out making Doss’s famous butterfly knot in which he lowered each man. Visitors will also see actual objects that belonged to Desmond T. Doss.

To learn more, visit our Heritage Center and take a tour of our main gallery.