Gather Stories of Your Family’s Veterans with Research Resources from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
...family about their service—is it true? We have these materials from their service—what are they? We have a photograph of him or her in uniform—what can you tell us about...
Suffrage Through Service: How Military Service Expanded Voting Rights
...brave service has also affected some of those rights over the past 150 years. In particular, military service has changed the way that we vote in elections in very significant...
Mexican Expedition
...Fort Sheridan, Illinois to be mustered out of federal service before returning to their home state. The 3rd Wisconsin Infantry had completed their service in December; the 1st Wisconsin Infantry...
Remembering the Korean Armistice: 1,100 Days as a Prisoner of War
...with-- they thought I had something-- my chest [inaudible] were bad. I couldn't breathe good, and I had-- my ears were all plugged. So, I got to fly home in...
Generations of Service
Rhonda Ziesler and her WWI-era veteran father, seen. Her dad added the caption and fancifully promoted himself to general. 1944 Military service ripples in families beyond an individual servicemember. Often...
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...the collections to preserve them in perpetuity acquiring artifacts and documents significant to the stories of Wisconsin veterans funding educational programs, both online and in-person Please call us at (608)261-0536...
Wisconsin Rapids Mark E. Anderson Reflects on Iraq
...didn't, we moved them-- just push them off. And so it-- and I tell that only because, fast-forwarding a little bit to when I-- I come home on leave, and...
Eau Claire Veteran J. Birney Dibble Recalls Korean War
...mail to reach Korea? DIBBLE: It was a month of– two weeks each way. HEALEY: Okay. DIBBLE: You’d write the letter. It would go out- if we weren’t in actual...
Listening to Learn: Oral Histories from Women in Service
Ann Fritsch By Ellen Brooks, Oral Historian 2018 marks seventy years since the passage of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act which enabled women to serve as regular members of...
The Green Bay Tribes: Volunteer Service in the Civil War
...the Wisconsin state government, and the American military. Yet men from each of these nations, for a variety of reasons, chose to volunteer for service in the Union Army. Their...