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 town 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.

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