MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. - Amid the sound of battle cries and machine gun fire, the stories of the nation's war heroes are now being told in a renovated museum aboard a moored aircraft carrier.
The refurbished $1.5 million Medal of Honor Museum is set to open Memorial Day weekend aboard the USS Yorktown on Charleston Harbor as a tribute to the 3,444 recipients of the nation's highest military honor.
"It was absolutely breathtaking - the tightness in the chest and the water in the eye," said Gary Littrell, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient who saw the completed museum for the first time Monday.
At the museum, visitors enter a hall to a multimedia exhibit on the …
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