Wisconsin’s veterans remember 9/11
...remember where we were on the morning of September 11, 2001, when we learnt of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and in the sky...
Flag Day, U.S. Army Birthday and Father’s Day Post
...boarded the Cunard Liner “Saxonia” a purely hospital ship carrying 1700 of us wounded stretcher cases back to U.S.A. Arriving in New York – Dec. 26, 1918 – for the...
Wisconsin Veterans Museum’s Video Receives a Silver Telly
...the new programs and exhibits planned over the next four years for the Museum and Foundation. The video is available for viewing at www.wisvetsmuseum.com and on all the Museum’s social...
CURATOR CONVERSATIONS- A WORLD GREATLY CHANGED: THE LEGACY OF WWII
In 1944 the U.S. Joint Chiefs predicted “a world greatly changed” by Allied victory. World War II left a towering legacy on the world, one still relevant and apparent 75...
Part V: THE END OF THE WAR
...the cruiser USS Indianapolis. News of the bomb reached Truman at Potsdam in Germany, where he was meeting with his counterparts, Joseph Stalin of the USSR and Winston Churchill of...
Talking Spirits Cemetery Tour XVII Recap
...the stories of Sally Blair Fairchild and Francis Bull Fairchild, August Bartsch, Albert Lamson, and Alice Whiting Waterman. This year’s tour was the most successful yet. Roughly, 2,500 students from...
JEFFERSON RESIDENT’S MEDAL OF HONOR ADDED TO THE WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM
...heard about The Wisconsin Veterans Museum’s new Medal of Honor display profiling the stories and medals of four Wisconsin veterans, they knew something was missing. It was the Medal of...
Madison’s Count This Penny Set to Debut New Civil War Songs for Record Release Party at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2012 Madison’s Count This Penny Set to Debut New Civil War Songs for Record Release Party at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum (MADISON) ― On Friday,...
Membership
...from Smithsonian Journeys Free admission to the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City A personalized Smithsonian membership card 10% discount on all IMAX tickets at the Smithsonian...