Atlanta History Center honors veterans with special tribute

From the Coca-Cola headquarters near the campus of Georgia Tech to the Atlanta History Center, marking Veterans Day with a commemoration ceremony and special program at its Buckhead campus. Let's get out to Maria Guzman, who's there live with more on today's tribute. Maria? Hey, Tom. There are so many ways here that people are remembering Veterans Day and remembering our veterans and the service they paid. History plays a big part of Veterans Day and thinking about our military members who have served in combat in the last decades, but even in the last century. And so right now I'm inside a Civil War exhibit right here at the center that really highlights the stories of the soldiers during that time as they were in combat. So I'm going to go ahead and flip my camera around To introduce you guys to Dr. Jones, Gordon Jones, who is here and he is the visionary as well. So I like to call it here, Dr. Furs, I'm going to go ahead and start with what's behind you because it looks like... This is what these soldiers wore is that correct? That's right Maria. So we're looking at this whole case that tells you about the soldiers experience in the American Civil War and you know of course it started out being one thing people expected it to be this glorious you know glorious kind of triumph but it turned out to be one of the most horrific experiences that you can imagine. So When we look at some of these objects that we're looking at here, you see the canteens that have the bullet strikes in them. You see above that, that's a flag, U.S. Army for a hospital, and of course it's yellow with green so it would stand out against the sky so you would always know where to go to get medical treatment. You're seeing a US Army medical kit and a surgical kit over here as well and you can see the flesh knives and the bone saws that were used for the most common procedure of the American Civil War which was amputation. Wow. That was the that was the surest way to save a life when you had been shot in the limb was to amputate that limb. And this is of course before the age of the germ theory and antibiotics so infections are very common. Yeah, so much history here from all parts of the Civil War in the time. How were you guys able to get all these pieces? All right, some of these pieces, the core of the collection was collected by a man named Beverly DuBose and his son and then we've had several other collectors who have contributed to that and then over the last four or five years when we were preparing for this exhibition we just opened in July we made a big effort to bring in a lot of new artifacts to tell a lot of new stories and one of those new stories is is right here. Awesome. So we are running out of time. So I'm going to go ahead and send things back to you guys. But this exhibition began, they opened in July and it's going to live here in the center. So you have a chance to come and see this and walk through this and also. Make sure to check out the Veterans Park. You're actually able to hear the voices and stories of the veterans. So I'm going to go ahead and send things back to you guys from the Atlanta History Center. Incredible artifacts there, Maria, and so much to learn on this Veterans Day there at the History Center. Maria Guzman, Maria, thanks so much.