September 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw: One-line Drawings
Welcome to September 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw Gather your drawing supplies, pour yourself a beverage, and bring your artistic energy as we spend the evening together stretching our creative muscles. No experience is necessary. Feel free to reference some of the provided drawing guides below. This event is free
Two Generations of Wisconsin Veterans
At the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, we document, preserve, and make available the stories of Wisconsin veterans and their families. As a museum, we’ve collected several stories from multi-generational Wisconsin families. This month we feature a military family from Couderay, Wisconsin, Mary Slisz-Chucka and her son Todd Haskell. Mary Slisz-Chucka grew
August 2021 VIRTUAL! Drink & Draw: MARKERS
Welcome to the August 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw Let’s draw with markers! No experience is necessary. Gather your supplies, pour yourself a beverage, and bring your artistic energy as we spend the evening together stretching our creative muscles. Feel free to reference some of the provided drawing guides below.
Origins and Evolutions of Aviation Nose Art
Much like a person would customize a car, nose art on airplanes grew out of the crewmen’s desire to personalize their crafts. Beginning in World War I, European forces decorated their planes with fierce animals, family crests and other symbols. When the American forces arrived, they quickly followed the European’s
Iraq by Way of Stoughton: A Marine’s story
Shawn C. Corcoran grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, the child of a United States military family. Corcoran returned to the United States to finish his high school education in Stoughton, Wisconsin. In 1990, following his graduation, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in Madison, Wisconsin. Initially posted to Camp Pendleton,
July 2021 VIRTUAL! Drink & Draw: WATERCOLOR
Welcome to the JULY 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw In honor of World Watercolor Month we will be working on watercolors this Drink & Draw. No experience is necessary. Gather your supplies, pour yourself a beverage, and bring your artistic energy as we spend the evening together stretching our creative
Reflecting on PTSD: Experiences and Recovery
Military veterans and service members are uniquely at risk of experiencing or witnessing traumatic events. Whether a veteran served in a conflict or in peacetime, overseas, or at home, the effects of trauma can persist long after an inciting event. Mental health professionals sometimes identify these symptoms as post-traumatic stress
Overhead at Omaha Beach with D-Day Flier Leonard Schutta
In the early morning hours of 6 June 1944 off the coast of Normandy, France, on a stretch of coast forever immortalized that day with the name of Omaha, roughly 34,250 US soldiers aboard hundreds of landing craft and naval vessels of all sizes waited for H-hour, the time designated
Flag Day, U.S. Army Birthday and Father’s Day Post
For Flag Day and the Army’s Birthday today, and with Father’s Day coming up , we share this small flag and bible carried by Henry C. Fuller, Sr., of Whitewater, WI, throughout his service in World War I. In 1974, Fuller wrote a letter to his daughter telling the story of these two meaningful mementos when he gifted them to
Honoring Hmong Veterans of Wisconsin
Written by Luke D. Sprague, Oral Historian Hmong veterans of Wisconsin sacrificed their lives, homes, and livelihoods due to their alliance with the United States during the Secret War in Laos from 1961 to 1975. These Hmong, armed, trained, and organized by the United States and its allies, fought in