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When I travel across the 54 I always 

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ask to see their heritage rooms and a 

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lot of them are pretty amazing . And 

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what they do is they capture the 

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history of that unit and the people in 

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the community that created that unit 

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and its history . And the one that 

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makes this one unique is we try to 

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capture that for the 54 . And really 

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our historical teams done incredible 

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work to look at pieces of our history 

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from the National Guard . Going back to 

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the beginning the 1636 room with naming . 

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But what I'm really most excited to see 

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is the actual photographs of guardsmen 

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throughout history . And we asked each 

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of the States to send in photographs 

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because those are real people at a real 

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time in history that were part of real 

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events and the ability to capture that 

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and share it with others I think is 

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gonna be my most favorite part . And 

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just by walking through , hopefully , 

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it's a reminder that our nation is the 

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way it is because a lot of people stood 

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up and did the right thing and it 

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should be a reminder for all of us that 

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for our nation to continue to be the 

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great place it is , each and every one 

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of us has to step forward and do those 

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things . Our nation asks to make this 

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possible and they have done that and 

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that's what we're trying to capture 

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here .