Nov
20
December 7 will always be the “date which will live in infamy,” as President Franklin Roosevelt put it. And we will always remember. But on this Pearl Harbor Day, we’ll be looking toward a happier date – December 25. Well, at least somewhat happier – because the subject is Christmas...
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Nov
08
Come on out to the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum on Friday, Dec. 6! We’ll be open starting at 10 a.m., as usual. Or at least, “as usual” back before June 3, when we had to close the doors to general admission for several months. That was...
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Oct
31
The S.C. Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum will welcome you to the South Carolina Military Miniature Society’s 33rd Annual Toy Soldier Show on Saturday, Nov. 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event will be in the Congaree Room, above the museum’s main galleries, which have been closed...
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Oct
29
The Battle of Ia Drang in 1965 was the first great clash between the U.S. and North Vietnamese armies. About 237 Americans were killed, along with 132 South Vietnamese, and many more NVA soldiers. The clash was immortalized in the film, “We Were Soldiers.” Five South Carolinians died in that...
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Oct
15
COLUMBIA, S.C. – A museum filled with artifacts from every war in which South Carolinians have fought since the American Revolution inevitably contains many artifacts that were once the treasured possessions of people who, alas, are now long dead and gone. Or are they? Particularly at this time of year,...
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Aug
28
COLUMBIA, S.C. – Confederate soldiers were always short of supplies, but in September 1864 things were worse than ever. Besieged in Petersburg, Va., the Army of Northern Virginia was facing starvation. Robert E. Lee saw that somebody had to do something. That somebody turned out to be South Carolina’s own...
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Jul
09
The longest battle of the American Revolution happened in South Carolina. That was the Siege of Ninety Six. One Patriot played a large role in that episode: Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Who? You can learn all about him by attending a free lecture at noon on Aug. 16 at the Richland Library...
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Jun
05
The first U.S. military pilot to be shot down and taken prisoner in Vietnam was naval aviator Everett Alvarez Jr. It happened on Aug. 5, 1964. He would endure eight years and seven months of brutal captivity at the Hỏa Lò Prison, ironically called the "Hanoi Hilton" by fellow POWs....
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May
20
The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum will be closed to general admission, starting June 3. It will still be available to small groups by appointment, and the staff will still be working every day. But the work the staff will be doing necessitates the temporary closure. The...
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May
13
The television show “M*A*S*H” made Americans somewhat more conscious of the role of the Army Medical Corps during the Korean War, decades after the fact. The average civilian knows far less about those who served in that capacity in Vietnam. That will be addressed on Saturday, May 25 – Memorial...
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