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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 18, 2014 Contact: Carla Vigue (608) 266-0517 Carla.Vigue@dva.wisconsin.gov WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM AWARDED GRANT BY INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES MADISON, Wis. (Sept. 18, 2014) –...

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum to Close on Mondays

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 12, 2012 Wisconsin Veterans Museum to Close on Mondays (MADISON)— The Wisconsin Veterans Museum announces new service hours starting Monday, January 30, 2012, when the main...

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I Am Not Invisible

...IANI participants in order to give them an opportunity to share their stories at length and add the stories to the museum collections. The online project page and access was...

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Wisconsin’s veterans remember 9/11

...parents. For the rest us, too young to remember, trying to grasp the experience of those who lived through September 11, 2001, could involve watching online videos, reading social media...

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February 2021 Virtual! Drink & Draw

...are available online and at most Target stores and at arts and crafts stores. Eraser Drawing by Yvette M. Pino. The artist drew this image of a fellow service member...

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A video interview with Brigadier General Robert Andrew Cocroft

...that will enable you to generate a printable document for download that includes the metadata, summary, citations, index, and transcript. Without any further ado, here is Brigadier General Cocroft’s interview....

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WAR: RAW – Healing Military Trauma Through Expressive Art

...those struggles. We are making these interviews available online with the hope that the conversation about the mental health of our veterans continued after the exhibit had been taken down....

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The Barber Brothers

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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Honoring Hmong Veterans of Wisconsin

“So right now, the thing that I desire the most is for my story be placed somewhere, so that the children, or Americans can come, see, read and know that...

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Book Talk with Robin Williams- The Last Romantic War

...for love. Burning airplanes, runaway horses, errant hand grenades and a sexy spy hold the reader’s attention from the first page to the last. REGISTER HERE This online event is...

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