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Posted: 8/14/2017 4:15:39 PM EDT

I've been wanting to visit this museum for a while now. I have to tell you it was amazing.

Put it on your must visit list.

https://www.theworldwar.org/

Just a few pics.

Great museum.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:22:27 PM EDT

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Been there a few times myself.

Always a very sobering experience, especially when you consider literally all the political and economic mishaps we are experiencing can be directly traced to that conflict.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:26:53 PM EDT

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Thanks for the photos.

Has anyone ever figured out how they moved around so fast back then

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:28:28 PM EDT

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holy shit!

a post not about taylor swift, 320, or nazis

for a second there I was starting to think everyone on ARFCOM hated each other

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:32:32 PM EDT

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Thank you for sharing that.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:40:30 PM EDT

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It's an awesome museum and as timely as ever.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:41:36 PM EDT

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My grandfather was in that madness with the 28th Div.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:47:44 PM EDT

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I love that place. Been there a small handful of times.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:51:43 PM EDT

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Thank you.

Posted: 8/14/2017 4:56:08 PM EDT

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The wife and I went when we were in KC a few years ago. I thought it was very powerful. Something unique for the Midwest.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:01:38 PM EDT

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I was able to visit last year, very cool place. If you are still in KC, google Joe's Kansas City BBQ.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:01:59 PM EDT

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An awesome Museum, we toured it about 5 years ago. I'm glad I didn't miss it.

No1 Mk111's are well represented there

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:05:46 PM EDT

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Went there a few years ago and made a thread about it. One of the best museums I've been to.

Never been to any of the other National War Museums, are they just as good?

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:06:24 PM EDT

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Why are these museums in the middle of nowhere.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:13:11 PM EDT

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Kansas City? The middle of the USA? How is that nowhere?

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:14:17 PM EDT

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I was just there last Saturday.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:17:49 PM EDT

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Kansas city? yeah. tiny town.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:20:40 PM EDT

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Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Off to play BF1

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:28:36 PM EDT

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Don't let the word out.... complete shit-hole... please don't go there from Oregon

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:38:27 PM EDT

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Absolutely great museum. Took my father and boys there before he passed away. He really enjoyed it.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:39:01 PM EDT

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I was there dozens of times as a kid when it was just The Liberty Memorial. My Grandfather, a WWI vet, was at both dedications.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:44:59 PM EDT

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Went there a few years ago and made a thread about it. One of the best museums I've been to.

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I've been to the WWII museum in New Orleans a couple of times.

IMO, the WWI might be better. Both are well worth the visit.

Posted: 8/14/2017 5:47:25 PM EDT

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Went there a few years ago and made a thread about it. One of the best museums I've been to.

Never been to any of the other National War Museums, are they just as good?

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I went to the national WWII museum in New Orleans a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Although it was mostly me pointing at guns and telling my wife "I have one of those! And one of those! I don't have one of those

". I did the same at the WWI museum as well.

Personally I enjoy the WWI museum a bit more because I am less familiar with that era and learned more while at the museum.

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:02:00 PM EDT

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One thing I noticed on my recent trip to France and visiting the various sites, is that despite our very small part in the overall war, we do love some huge ass monuments.

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:02:20 PM EDT

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WWI directly led to the creation of the Nazis, stealth Nazi thread!

No, but awesome, it's now in my bucket list.

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:04:51 PM EDT

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Been there, I want to take my grandson.

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:05:12 PM EDT

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Great photos!

I haven't been in years. I need to go back.

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:14:22 PM EDT

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Because they would rather put them in a working class america rather than some overpopulated liberal shithole??

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:15:36 PM EDT

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Thanks for taking the time to post.

Posted: 8/14/2017 6:19:10 PM EDT

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I would love to go to Europe and visit the war museums.

Even those in former Soviet Bloc countries and Russia.

One of our members here posted some pics from a war museum iirc from Ukraine. Very interesting.

Posted: 8/16/2017 11:04:36 AM EDT

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I went to the national WWII museum in New Orleans a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Although it was mostly me pointing at guns and telling my wife "I have one of those! And one of those! I don't have one of those

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Personally I enjoy the WWI museum a bit more because I am less familiar with that era and learned more while at the museum.

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The Museum at Camp Shelby, MS was better than the WWII Museum in NO.

Posted: 8/17/2017 12:30:34 PM EDT

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I went to the national WWII museum in New Orleans a few months ago and I enjoyed it. Although it was mostly me pointing at guns and telling my wife "I have one of those! And one of those! I don't have one of those

". I did the same at the WWI museum as well.

Personally I enjoy the WWI museum a bit more because I am less familiar with that era and learned more while at the museum.

The Museum at Camp Shelby, MS was better than the WWII Museum in NO.

I had no idea there was a museum there.

Add it to the list.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:12:10 AM EDT

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Add this one to your list if you're ever near Oklahoma City. It's very good.

The 45th Division Museum

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:21:58 AM EDT

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It's a great place to go. Thanks for posting the pics OP.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:31:27 AM EDT

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good post . on the list of places to go .

Posted: 8/18/2017 12:41:35 PM EDT

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Will do.

Posted: 8/18/2017 12:55:22 PM EDT

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Eat any good food while you were here?

Posted: 8/18/2017 1:24:06 PM EDT

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Excellent museum. Glad you enjoyed your time in our fair city sir.

Posted: 8/18/2017 1:26:54 PM EDT

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Because if it were in Oregon, your state would've torn it down.

Posted: 8/18/2017 1:28:46 PM EDT

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And IIRC it was privately funded when it was first made because someone realized there was no Great War memorial - and there should be one, then it was privately/donation funded for the renovation.

Posted: 8/18/2017 2:02:30 PM EDT

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Yes...it was a bunch of wealthy Kansas Citians who started the project, chiefly a lumber baron named Robert Long who was later bankrupted by the Great Depression.

Posted: 8/18/2017 2:17:17 PM EDT

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Seems like Jacks Stack catered almost every event I attended. It was good.

The Majestic http://majestickc.com/ Is excellent. I've been there twice now.

Posted: 8/18/2017 2:22:08 PM EDT

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Another one on the bucket list.

I went to the 45th Infantry Museum, The Thunderbirds this year, and it is well worth the trip.

Posted: 8/18/2017 2:39:56 PM EDT

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yep, we're just flyover country.....they have done a great job improving that area. did you hit the lower level at the majestic? I think it is old school speak easy....another good spot if your midtown is Green Lady Lounge.....Peanut for wings......

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:14:10 PM EDT

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Yes, we ate dinner down stairs.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:16:47 PM EDT

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In before some liberals want to tear it down because they are ignorant.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:21:28 PM EDT

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One thing I noticed on my recent trip to France and visiting the various sites, is that despite our very small part in the overall war, we do love some huge ass monuments.

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The Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Paris is rather large, especially since it's for 68 pilots killed.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:23:14 PM EDT

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I would love to go to Europe and visit the war museums.

Even those in former Soviet Bloc countries and Russia.

One of our members here posted some pics from a war museum iirc from Ukraine. Very interesting.

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One thing I noticed on my recent trip to France and visiting the various sites, is that despite our very small part in the overall war, we do love some huge ass monuments.

I would love to go to Europe and visit the war museums.

Even those in former Soviet Bloc countries and Russia.

One of our members here posted some pics from a war museum iirc from Ukraine. Very interesting.

I lost the better part of a day to the imperial war museum in London last year.

Posted: 8/18/2017 7:30:41 PM EDT

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We don't have any commies here that want to destroy it

Posted: 8/19/2017 9:52:59 AM EDT

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Seems like Jacks Stack catered almost every event I attended. It was good.

The Majestic http://majestickc.com/ Is excellent. I've been there twice now.

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Ah, yes. There are BBQ I like more than Jack Stack, but they're still damned good.

Never been to the Majestic. Been by there many times, should probably check it out sometime.

Next time you come to KC, post in the MOHTF and maybe we can organize an Arfcom meetup.

Posted: 8/19/2017 9:58:39 AM EDT

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I went to the 45th Infantry Museum, The Thunderbirds this year, and it is well worth the trip.

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I go there a few times a year. I live 10 minutes away.

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