There are museum exhibits meant to inform and museum exhibits meant to matter. The new Vietnam War exhibit, “Not Forgotten”, at the Excelsior Springs Museum belongs firmly in the second category. This is not a display you breeze past. It is detailed, immersive and deeply human. It asks visitors to slow down, read carefully, reflect and sit with a period of history that was complicated, emotional and often painful. Most importantly, it refuses to reduce the Vietnam War or the people who lived through it to a single narrative. Instead, the exhibit does what history should always do: it tells the whole story. Visitors will find recognition of service members from our area who served in every branch of the military. It honors those who deployed overseas and those who served stateside whose roles were essential but sometimes overlooked. It highlights the nurses who served during Vietnam — women who carried not only medical responsibility but emotional burdens that followed them long after…