Finis la Guerre: The Eleventh Hour and the End of World War I
...remember the Wisconsin men and women who experienced those dramatic final days first hand all along the Western Front. As early as the beginning of October, it was known that...
WDVA Announces Talking Spirits: Forest Hill Cemetery Tours 2013
...Talking Spirits: Forest Hill Cemetery Tour, an award-winning living history program in its fifteenth year. Public tours will be available on Sunday, October 6, 2013. Did you know that at...
If Dreams Come True…~The Wanserski Family
...reflect the deep longing George and Florence felt to be together (“You know George I believe our thoughts are the same even when we are so far apart.”) . With...
Part II: Okinawa: The Battle Builds
...Little did Buckner know that at the same time General Ushijima was planning an offensive of his own for early May. Go to Part I: The Genesis of Battle...
Evolution of Absentee Voting from the Civil War to WWII
...12th Armored Division in France in November 1944. He wrote in a letter to his parents, “I received my ballot, voted and sent it right back but don’t know if...
Remembering the USS Cole (DDG 67) 20th Anniversary
...Pascagoula, Mississippi, on November 26, 1995. He was with the newly-constructed Guided Missile Destroyer the first time she went underway on December 13, 1995. He didn’t know it then, but...
Indigenous Veterans of Wisconsin
...the Japanese could not crack, allowing American troops in the Pacific to relay vital messages safely and securely. While not nearly as widely known, several Wisconsin tribes used their native...
Vietnam: The Indochina Wars, 1945-1975
What we know today as “the Vietnam War” was actually part of a broader series of conflicts over three decades that emerged in French Indochina after World War II. Increasing...
Just a Few C.B.I. G.I.s Back from the War
...public’s interest—the China-Burma-India Theater became known as the “Forgotten Theater” despite its strategic significance during the war. In the early 1940s, the US was eager to support China in their...