Providing visitors with opportunities to form their own intellectual and emotional connections with the significance of sites to be included in the Manhattan Project National Historical Park helps them understand its relevance to our shared national heritage. There is no better place to understand history than where it happened, and that's what national parks and the National Park Service do best.
Bingaman emphasizes the importance of historical parks in understanding national heritage.
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