Author of New York Times Best-Seller ‘Carnage and Culture’ to Speak at Wisconsin Veterans Museum Gala

...of Veterans Affairs and is located at 30 W. Mifflin St., across the street from the State Capitol. For more information, go to www.wisvetsmuseum.com./ -30- 201 West Washington Avenue |...

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Wisconsin Was There: Desert Storm Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Persian Gulf War, Part I

...Achterberg, of the 1122nd Transportation Detachment out of Madison that arrived in Saudi Arabia in October 1990, described the conditions in the sands and sun of the Saudi desert. This...

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Wisconsin Veterans and September 11, 2001

...others that do it part time and I think we can do it too…If you wanna go, go for it.”…So [I] finally got commissioned to Captain of Infantry in the...

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Wisconsin Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Kicks Off the 150th Commemoration of the Civil War with a Special Program at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum

...the 150th events at www.CivilWarWisconsin.com. The website is being used to collect stories, photographs, and other items relating to the Civil War. A light reception will be held before Herdegen’s...

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AUTHOR OF THE PACIFIC, HUGH AMBROSE TO SPEAK IN MADISON

...more information go to www.wvmfoundation.com. The Wisconsin VeteransMuseum is a free public educational activity of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs and is located at 30 W. Mifflin St., across...

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

...and should be complete by March 31, 2016. A complete list of museum recipients is available on the IMLS website at https://www.imls.gov/. For information about IMLS museum grant programs, see:...

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Beckel in IV training in AIT. WVM.OH2238

I AM NOT INVISIBLE 3.0: WOMEN VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES

...Not Invisible Project is an annual effort to photograph and interview women veterans. Click here for the current project website: https://wisvetsmuseum.com/oral-histories/featured-interviews/i-am-not-invisible/. Unfortunately, due to the Covid pandemic, the second project...

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Laura Naylor Colbert and friends on deployment in Iraq

Operation Iraqi Freedom: Wisconsin Women Were There Proving Their Skill

...other place to put me. It's like, I would say something, and people would just totally discount it because I'm the one that said it. And I would get so...

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WORLD WAR I STORIES FROM A CENTURY AGO TOLD IN VETS’ OWN WORDS IS A FIRST FOR WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM

...in the Wisconsin Capitol. It is an educational activity of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs and a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate which gives it access to the Smithsonian’s unparalleled collections...

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Wisconsin Was There: Desert Storm Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Persian Gulf War, Part II

...object of flanking most of the Iraqi Republican Guard units that were positioned in southern Iraq. Our mission was to engage the Iraqi units in the Wadi while the main...

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