The Dream Continues

The original vision has remained the same: Develop a place to honor America's Veterans of the battlefront and the home front. The Museum offers veterans a place to remember, where they can touch and smell and sit in the very vehicles, which, in some cases, may have saved their lives.

Not only are there restored jeeps, trucks, ambulances, and half-tracks, but singular vehicles, like the Downed Airman Retriever, one of a handful existing in the entire world. Farmers and veterans have donated various pieces, each remembered by a "pet name" affixed to the vehicle.

Contacts with other Veterans' groups have been beneficial. Confederate Air Force Members restored the Museum's 1942 twin -engine Beechcraft C-45 and now fly it on Museum "Missions." They also bring their own vintage planes to Heartland events.