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National Guard Memorial Museum Receives New OIF Artifacts
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September 1, 2005
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The National Guard Memorial Museum received several artifacts directly from the field in Iraq last month that illustrate the challenges Guardsmen face today on the ground. It's also a chilling reminder of the tasks citizen-soldiers must face in the days to come.
Among the donated items was a protective mask from the old Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein.
While no substantial evidence of chemical or biological weapons were found after Operation Iraqi Freedom began, Mr. Hussein had a well-known history of using gas against the Iranians in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and against the Kurds within Iraq in the early 1990s.
The donation also included an Iraqi insurgent's pants, bandoleer and ...