Not At Ease: A Veteran Print Project – New Exhibit Opening at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum

...is located at 30 W. Mifflin St. in Madison, across the street from the State Capitol. -30- 201 West Washington Avenue | Madison, Wisconsin 53707 1-800-WIS-VETS | WisVets@dva.wisconsin.gov | WisVets.com...

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM KICKS OFF 2014 WITH NEW EVENTS AND SPEAKERS

...of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs and is located at 30 W. Mifflin St., across from the State Capitol. For more information, visit www.wisvetsmuseum.com. -30- 201 West Washington Avenue...

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Honoring LGBTQ+ Veterans of Wisconsin

...Other duties included picking up numerous Japanese net balls and monitoring Soviet ships. In his time off, ensign, then later Lieutenant Junior Grade Reed spent time on the beach at...

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Ghost Mountain Commander from Neillsville

...sale in our online bookstore: The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea In the future, we hope to post another Ghost Mountain soldier’s...

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Corporate/Nonprofit Membership

Become a Corporate or Nonprofit Member today! For more than 100 years the Wisconsin Veterans Museum has preserved the memories of Wisconsin’s military veterans. As a member you will experience...

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2013 Spring Programs

...W. Mifflin St., across the street from the State Capitol. For more information go to www.wisvetsmuseum.com./ -30- 201 West Washington Avenue | Madison, Wisconsin 53707 1-800-WIS-VETS | WisVets@dva.wisconsin.gov | WisVets.com...

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM TO END 150 YEAR OLD DEBATE BY REVEALING RESULTS OF DNA ANALYSIS TESTING GENDER OF FAMED CIVIL WAR MASCOT “OLD ABE”

...giving speeches about Old Abe having laid eggs, asserting the bird was actually female. Further evidence for this claim was made in 1915 when Old Abe’s taxidermist made a similar...

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MEDIA ALERT: WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM PARTNERS WITH UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER MOLECULAR ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP (MAG) TO SOLVE 150 YEAR OLD DEBATE BY REVEALING RESULTS OF DNA ANALYSIS

...asserting the bird was actually female. Further evidence for this claim was made in 1915 when Old Abe’s taxidermist made a similar conclusion based on the eagle’s larger—and therefore female—size....

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The Story of One Wisconsin WASP: Happy Landings, the Jeanette Kapus Story

...a handful of female fliers like Amelia Earhart had ever garnered any significant attention, but over 25,000 women submitted applications to become a WASP. Only 1,830 were accepted to the...

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Fellow WASPs posing together in their flight gear.

Women’s Unequaled Service

...color. But exceptions existed, including the 404th Armed Forces Service Band, which remains to this day the only all-black female military band in US history, and the 6888th Central Postal...

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