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Trivia Night July

...your calendar. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/trivia-night-july-registration-873402459267 This event is suitable for all ages Event sponsored by The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation with support for the Foundation in memory of Pat Finley.  ...

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Movie Night Virtual Discussion – Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)

...staff. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/movie-night-virtual-discussion-ike-countdown-to-d-day-2004-tickets-873493230767 This event is free and open to the public. Event sponsored by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation with support for the Foundation in memory of Pat Finley....

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Like Angels in the Sky: A Combat Medic’s Story

  Combat medic Charles Schellpeper As I stepped off the plane into the dark Kuwaiti desert a wave of hot moist air hit me. I was in the Middle East,...

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The Price of a Name by Kevin Hampton

...since, numbered over nine hundred men, can now muster but fifty-nine. This brigade has done some of the hardest and best fighting in the service. It has been justly termed...

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The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – August 1917

...as it won’t roll up in anything small. If Will can get what I want have him send for it and I will see that he gets the money in...

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Membership Draft

...Wisconsin Veterans Museum a special place – great exhibits, educational offerings, and special events. Best of all, you’ll join a group of individuals who value the legacy of Wisconsin’s military...

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JEFFERSON RESIDENT’S MEDAL OF HONOR ADDED TO THE WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM

...saying it was not in the best interest of the war effort and the money would be better spent on the troops. Gruennert’s father, Arthur Gruennert wrote, “It is an...

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Hiroshima Aftermath

Wisconsin and the Bombing of Hiroshima

...one of the eight who died in the prison; his body was never identified, and he is commemorated in the Court of the Missing at the Punchbowl in Hawaii. Three...

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Origins of Absentee Voting

...up to it. In a letter home, Asahel Gage of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry asked how the prospect of Lincoln being reelected looked in Wisconsin. He received a reply that...

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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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