IT WILL BE OPEN TOMORROW ON
FORBES AVENUE NEAR MARKET
SQUARE.
A THRIFT SHOP IN SHARPS
BURLING HAS RECEIVED ALL KINDS
OF DONATIONS OVER THE YEARS.
BUT A RECENT DONATION HAS
INTRIGUED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.
DAVE CRAWL QUESTION HAS MORE.
Reporter: ST. VINCENT DEPAUL
OF SHARPSBURG IS ONE OF SIX
AREA THRIFT SHOPS THAT BENEFIT
MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE IN
NED.
THOSE WHO WORK HERE NEVER KNOW
WHAT THE NEXT DAY WILL BRING.
AND SO IT WAS RIGHT THROUGH
HERE IN OUR PROCESSING ROOM
WHERE WE FOUND THE ITEM.
Reporter: OPERATIONS
DIRECTOR CAROLYN KENSING SAYS
DONATIONS COME THROUGH THE BACK
DOOR.
THAT'S WHERE THE FOOTLOCKER
WAS.
IT CAME RIGHT IN THROUGH THE
BACK DOOR AND WHEN THE WORKERS
UNPACKED THE FOOTLOCKER, THEY
FOUND ALL KINDS OF OLD
TREASURES, ONE OF WHICH WAS A
VERY UNIQUE ITEM.
THE WORLD WAR II VINTAGE
MEDICAL KIT WAS ONE OF MANY
ITEMS USED BY MEDICS TO PATCH
UP WOUNDED SOLDIERS DURING
WORLD WAR II.
TO GUARANTEE ITS PRESERVATION,
THE THRIFT SHOP HAS PRESENTED
IT TO MICHAEL KRAUSS, THE
CURATOR OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
HALL.
INSIDE IS A SYRINGE AND
MEDICINE USED BY -- IN WORLD
WAY II, VERY TIP CAR POSE OF
MEDICAL EQUIPMENT THAT WOULD
HAVE BEEN USED IN A FIELD
HOSPITAL, BY DOCTORS WHO ARE
VISITING WOUNDED PATIENTS.
AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THE CHAOS
WHEN ALL OF THE WOUNDED ARE
COMING IN.
Reporter: THOUGH THEY MAY
HAVE BEEN COMMON DURING
WARTIME, IT IS LIKELY VERY FEW
MADE IT HOME.
WORLD WAR II REENACTOR RICH
MOORE WEARS REPLICAS OF A
MEDIC'S EQUIPMENT.
THE U.S. SOLDIERS DURING THE
SECOND WORLD WAR HAD ACCESS TO
EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT MEDICAL
CARE IF THEY HAPPENED TO BE
WOUNDED AND THEY HAD HAD A VERY
HIGH RATE OF SURVIVAL BUS OF
OUR ADVANCED MEDICINES.
IN THE 1920S AND 1930S, MEDICAL
TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE OF
PHARMACOLOGY REALLY TOOK OFF.
Reporter: THE MEDICAL KITS
LIKE THIS ONE AND THE MEN AND
WOMEN WHO KNEW HOW TO USE THEM
