FAMED BALD EAGLE MASCOT “OLD ABE” CONFIRMED AS MALE DNA TESTING OF MASCOTS FEATHERS ANSWERS 150 YEAR OLD DEBATE

July 14, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DNA TESTING OF MASCOT’S FEATHERS YIELD CONCLUSIVE RESULTS MADISON, Wis. (July 14, 2016) – The Wisconsin Veterans Museum and University of Wisconsin-Madison Biotechnology Center...

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A Lesson in Resiliency From the Bataan Death March

...Classroom, Education, Learn About the Park, Andersonville National Historic Site, 37. Accessed April 26, 2020. https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/education/classrooms/upload/VFW_FULL_CURRICULUM.pdf. [4] Ibid. [5] L. Willard Freeman, “Mayo General Hospital,” Journal of the Illinois State...

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The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – November 1917

...you   Mortimer. Address: Detachment Aerial Observers Signal Corps Concentration Camp, Garden City, L.I. Nov. 20th, 1917 Dear Folks:- Talk about hard luck. This morning I had it all fixed...

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Roses of No Man’s Land – Base Hospital 22

...the proudest and most fulfilling of their lives. Bibliography Bulovsky, Helen C., 1895-1923. Papers and Photographs, 1914-2001. WVM Mss 536 Kinney, Aimee O’Keefe, 1889-1959. Papers and Photographs, 1909-2004 (bulk 1918-1919)....

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The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – May 1917

...is in my old Culver trunk, my best canvas puttees, which were on the shelf in my closet, my two suits of pajamas, my tennis slippers, bathing suit and supporter...

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The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – June 1917

...namesake—was also written on June 7. June 15, 1917 Western Union Telegram Received at Beaver Dam, Wis. 2 AU HK 24 NL Ft Sheridan Ills June 15th, [1917] Mrs T...

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The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – December 1917

...history of the organization from the time we gathered at Fort Sill with a lot more take-offs and then a lot of fake cables and telegrams from Pershing, Wilson, Baker,...

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Honoring LGBTQ+ Veterans of Wisconsin

...(NAG), Saigon, 1965. Reed grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, son of a middle-class working family. He knew how to get into the Green Bay Packer games for free at...

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WORLD WAR I STORIES FROM A CENTURY AGO TOLD IN VETS’ OWN WORDS IS A FIRST FOR WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM

...23, 2017) – The most powerful storytelling is first-person, unfiltered, heartfelt, and, at times, heart-wrenching. In days leading up to the United States’ entry into World War I a century...

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM AND PARTNERS TO HOST “WORLD WAR 100: A CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM”

...History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Bruno Cabanes, Professor, Donald G. & Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military History, The Ohio State University Holly Case, Associate Professor of History, Brown University...

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