 A new exhibit at the Warehouser Museum in Little Falls is showing off some artifacts with a goal to collect stories. Our Sarah Winkelman gives us a special sneak peek look at the Central Minnesota Remembers Vietnam exhibit. So this was his field map and the coordinates are actually for bombing coordinates. Maps, uniforms and photographs line the walls at the Warehouser Memorial Museum. It isn't just about the Vietnam vats, the combat soldiers. It's anybody who lived through the era and has you know some kind of story to tell that's related to the war. The museum has been collecting local artifacts to put in the exhibit in exchange for stories. All of the stories are incredibly deep even if they haven't told me very much. I mean it could be a paragraph or two. In a time of great discovery of the Vietnam era. We're at that time period with the Vietnam War where people who lived through like the you know sort of worst parts of going into combat. They're coming to an age where they're now ready to talk about it. Now most of the artifacts in the exhibit are on loan from various people throughout central Minnesota. With each piece bringing a new part of history to life. The objects themselves help us to tell the story and they really trigger stories for people. Like the POW-MIA bracelets worn for soldiers who were prisoners of war or missing in action. This is a great little sort of encapsulation that kind of shows the home front connection to the war. With what has been a learning process for the museum. Now we know there's so much more we don't know. There were far more stories than we were able to tell. One of those being uncovering more stories of the Minnesota Eight who left history right here in Morrison County. They were going to draft offices and breaking in and they were trying to destroy the draft records so that that people would not get drafted. During a war that defined the generation and stories from war that will now live on well into the future. In Little Falls Sarah Winkleman, Lakeland News. The exhibit is part of the effort by PBS to work on the Minnesota Remembers Vietnam Story Wall. If you would like to share a story the exhibit opening will take place on Saturday April 21st from 2 until 4 in the afternoon. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.