January 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw

DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE There’s nothing better than starting the new year with a little dazzle. Join us for January’s Virtual Drink & Draw where we will have fun experimenting with the...

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Book Talk – The Party Dolls: The True, Tragic Story of Two Americans’ Attempted Escape from a 1969 Hanoi POW Camp (Independently Published, 2021)

The Wisconsin Veterans Museum welcomes George Hayward to introduce his newest work, The Party Dolls. This story of escape from a Hanoi prisoner of war camp details the horrors of...

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Veterans Day Observance 2021

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PRESENTATION-Kolakowski & Admiral Rucker

On Wisconsin – a New Meaning!

...future nuclear- powered ballistic missile submarine, USS Wisconsin, a group of Navy Veterans and Wisconsinites formed a tax exempt, not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of Wisconsin in 2021. Their...

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Madison Cemetery Tours

...2021, and 2022 In the interest of the health and safety of our community in 2020 the Wisconsin Veterans Museum reimagined it's annual cemetery tours event from in-person tours to...

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Welcome to the Talking Spirits Virtual Cemetery Tour For 2021, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum is pleased to be in the serene and somber landscape of Madison's Forest Hill Cemetery to...

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Drink & Draw

Virtual Drink & Draw: Mixed-Media Sketchbooks with special guest artist M.B. Dallocchio

Brief Description: We are thrilled to announce M.B. Dallocchio as our guest artist for the June 2021 Drink & Draw. Grab your drawing supplies and your sketchbook to learn how...

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Badgers and the Day of Infamy

...a knife under her pillow. (Read more in the Fall 2021 issue of The Bugle.) After the first wave departed, a second wave of 171 planes followed hard on its...

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Happy 103rd Birthday, Lt. Col. Harry Baker !

...He retired in 1982. In a 2021 interview Baker was asked what he wanted young people to know, he said, “The only message I could leave is - When the...

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Voices from Afghanistan

Voices from Afghanistan The Voices from Afghanistan Series is a five-part audio blog where we explore stories from Wisconsin veterans who served in Afghanistan from 2001-2021. All the audio segments...

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