New York Historical Museum Trip

             The New York Historical Society Museum was a very interesting place. It seemed to be a very fancy place and everything was very clean. The exhibit WWII in NYC was put together great. It was interesting seeing a war veteran with his kids going through the museum in his wheelchair. I noticed he was very into everything the museum had to offer, this made me feel that it's collection was accurate and rare. Being from Staten Island I was surprised at the information I learned of how Staten Island was home to a training base for many of NYC soldiers. New York City had 900,000 soldiers commit to the war cause and fight for their country. The exhibit really showed how honorable and brave the citizens of New York City really were.
            There were many things in the museum that were interesting but three of them caught my eye. The first was the piece of the Nuclear plant that developed the bombs hit on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was called The Manhattan Project, it was here in NYC where the development of the atomic bomb. This was started in 1939 and the bombs were released in 1945 virtually ending the war. The second part of the exhibit was the ticket and collage of the event at Madison Square Garden. It was titled "We Will Never Die" and it was a memorial for the 2 million Jews that were killed because of the war and concentration camps. Going to Knicks games at the Garden made me realize just how different NYC was during WWII. The third piece that was extremely interesting was the New York Times front page stating "Hitler Dead in Chancellery." This was a huge piece of history of the death of a extremely evil man and New Yorkers were rejoiced because of it.