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...year subscription to The Bugle Invitations to exclusive VIP and member only events 10% Museum Shop discount 20% Museum Event Registration discount Recognition in The Bugle Mailed invitations to Museum...

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Corporate/Nonprofit Membership

...in The Bugle Invitations to VIP and member only events 20% discount on museum events for all employees 10% discount in museum gift shop for all employees Corporate/Organizational Member -...

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Photo of J. Birney Dibble during the Korean War

Eau Claire Veteran J. Birney Dibble Recalls Korean War

...guy and found out that he’d been in Korea, and that I had been. He said, “Oh, I bet you enjoy watching MASH.” I said, “I just can’t watch it,”...

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

...is a stock holder and as a member of his family I get a 10% discount on all I buy. Of course I will try to get everything there but...

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Native Words, Native Warriors: Native American Code Talkers

...Museum as he discusses the origins and development of Native Americans as code talkers in World War I and II, serving in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Theaters, including recruitment,...

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM PUTS ORAL HISTORY RECORDINGS ONLINE

...Iraqi Freedom (March – May 2003). In 2017, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum plans to add interviews with World War I veterans to mark the centennial of American involvement in that...

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Tarra Gundrum on What is Possible

...is what I wanted from the day I was in boot camp. And this is what my drill instructor was wearing. This is what I earned, and this is what...

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Vietnam countryside seen from a helicopter, soldier’s silhouette in the foreground.

Reflecting on PTSD: Experiences and Recovery

...of enclosing on either side and I just went “Hmm, no, no.” And I just left my cart and everything in it and I walked out because I just couldn’t...

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A Lesson in Resiliency From the Bataan Death March

...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 Historical Society (1908-1984) 44, no. 1 (Spring 1951): 26. Accessed April 25, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/40189110....

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Headshot photograph of Alannah McReavey

Alannah McReavey on Giving Back

...I don't remember if they brought me to the doctor. I don't remember anything. I just-- once I hit the water, I just remember because I was kind of out...

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