The Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Excelsior Springs Museum and Archives in support of its “Vietnam Veteran Oral History Project.”MHC is the only statewide agency in Missouri devoted exclusively to humanities education for citizens of all ages and has served as a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1971.The project is being conducted in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibit, “Not Forgotten: Local Stories of the Vietnam War Era,” which is open now through the end of November 2027 at the museum, 101 East Broadway Avenue, in historic downtown Excelsior Springs. The local exhibit is a companion to the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall, which will be in the city Sept. 9-14.Veterans of the Vietnam War era returned not to the parades that welcomed earlier veterans home from foreign wars, but to a country that had turned against the Vietnam War. In the face of widespread negativity and lack of s...