WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM AWARDED GRANT BY INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

...1,700 Civil War images. The images currently exist in a wide variety of formats, including ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes-de-vistes, gemtypes, cabinet cards and photo albums. “Wisconsin veterans have been serving America...

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AUTHOR OF THE PACIFIC, HUGH AMBROSE TO SPEAK IN MADISON

...the 2012 Wisconsin Veterans Museum’s Gala. The event is scheduled for Thursday, May 3, 2012 from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. Hugh Ambrose is the author of The Pacific, a non-fiction...

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum’s Video Receives a Silver Telly

...Founded in 1978, the Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos...

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New York Times Best-Selling Author Jeff Shaara to Speak at Wisconsin Veterans Museum

...as keynote at the 2011 Wisconsin Veterans Museum Gala. The event is scheduled for Thursday, May 5, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The son of Michael Shaara, author...

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

...St. Louis, CB & L to Burlington, Ia. and CRI & P to Minneapolis, the most direct route possible. Sunday morning we stopped for an hour at Albert Lea, Minn....

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

...before that time. I have lots of work to do tonight so will call this off. Love to all,   Mortimer. Fort Sill, Okla., Sept. 9, 1917. Dear Folks:- Well...

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WVMF Convoy Speaker Series Featuring Former SSG Eric Maddox

Join us on Sunday, June 27th, 2021 for this year’s Convoy Speaker Series fundraiser at Terrace 167 in Richfield, WI. The event will feature keynote speaker former Staff Sergeant Eric...

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Souvenirs Prohaska Quote

...given this to [the museum]. They were selling lighters, I don’t know, he probably didn’t even look at the product he was bringing to us, but just thought, ‘oh American,...

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Marcia Gates Photo

Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan in the Lost Battalion

...1941-45, w/ “Last Stand on Luzon”, 1942 (Source: U.S. Army Signal Corps Map) Liberation of Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Feb. 5, 1945. Photo Carl Mydans for LIFE Images. (Source: U.S....

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Headshot photograph of Alannah McReavey

Alannah McReavey on Giving Back

...know, the etiquette when you're standing up and directing people. Again, I felt like I was quite nervous, like thinking, oh, my gosh, you got some high ranking, you know,...

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