WISCONSIN REMEMBERS: A FACE FOR EVERY NAME
...lost potential. The traveling exhibit consists of indoor, easy-to-assemble, pop-up banners available to local libraries, historic societies, schools and community spaces throughout the state. There is no cost to reserve...
WWI BEYOND THE TRENCHES: STORIES FROM THE FRONT–TRAVELING EXHIBIT
...traveling exhibit features an up close and personal look at the Great War through the eyes of Wisconsin veterans. The traveling exhibit consists of indoor, easy-to-assemble, pop-up banners available to...
Movie Night Virtual Discussion – Paths of Glory (1957)
...Kurt Douglas, George Macready, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, this Stanley Kubrick classic is ranked as one of the best war films of all time. Your mission is to watch...
Roses of No Man’s Land – Base Hospital 22
...of at the point of her enlistment in April 1918. She was assigned to Base Hospital 22. Base Hospital 22 was formed at Knowlton Hospital in Milwaukee. The doctors became...
Wisconsin Veterans Museum: A Living Memorial by Dr. Richard Zeitlin
...Work began on the museum interior and exhibit fixtures in 1991. Some 20,000 square feet of space was available for the displays, gift store, artifact storage, museum offices, and mechanicals....
History of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
...museum interior and exhibit fixtures in 1991. Some 20,000 square feet of space was available for the displays, gift store, artifact storage, museum offices, and mechanicals. Ten thousand square feet...
Transcripts
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Military Appreciation Month by Ellen Brooks
“It takes about eight or ten people behind the lines to support one person in the front lines.” (Thomas Diener, Oral History Interview, 2005) Thomas Diener never saw combat while...
In Recognition of Aviation Month – The Story of Robert Balliet
...to the Germans he endured solitary confinement, the Stalag, and a forced march conducted to elude the advancing Russians. In this excerpt from his oral history interview, conducted in 2000,...
Together in War by Emily Irwin
...Wililard learned that his brother had died of pnemonia, despite the efforts of German doctors to save him. After the war, Willard went to vocational school in Sheboygan and became...