New Museum to Showcase Soldiers’ Personal Wartime Experiences

By Peter Roff

America’s wartime past is about to come alive, just outside the Washington Beltway–22 miles from the nation’s Capital.

 In an area once rich in farm land, organizers of the new American Wartime Museum plan to develop a 70-acre facility alongside Interstate 95 in Virginia’s Prince William County where the stories of those who served in all branches of the U.S. Military and on the American home front can finally be told.

Spanning the period from World War I to the present, the museum’s centerpiece is an extraordinary collection of more than 100 working, vintage military vehicles presently in private hands–some of which were recently put on display during a late August “open house” during which people were given the opportunity to ride in some vintage armored vehicles and to see others in action.

Organizers say the museum’s purpose is to provide visitors with the opportunity to learn about the “personal wartime experiences” of those who have worn the nation’s uniforms and to give all those who come there a sense of “the realities of war and the sacrifices made by Americans in order to preserve our nation’s freedoms.”

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