Gather Stories of Your Family’s Veterans with Research Resources from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
...Pre-interview and Guide Development PART THREE: Interviewing Techniques And so, if you’re looking for information about an ancestor with military service, be sure to include the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in...
Marcia Anderson, the Trailblazer
...phone interview conducted on August 12, 2020, in the middle of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Interspersed in the text are audio clips from the interview. Click Marcia Anderson's Interview to listen...
The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – May 1917
...not that we don’t have to work and work hard all the time, but it is such a change that I can’t realize until I think back just how much...
The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – September 1917
...here it is Sunday again and it doesn’t seem more than a day or two since we were all in Minneapolis. I don’t know exactly what I wrote you in...
Listening to Learn: Oral Histories from Women in Service
...everything. It was every firefight that guys were in, it was every rescue mission that was coming in. Finally I said to the captain, “I can’t do this.” There’s this...
Dunday Recalls Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)
...if their response was like, I don't want to talk about it, it normally didn't go well. So at that point I would just leave it alone and like, okay....
Wisconsin Women in Combat: Garza Recounts Being Under Fire at FOB Masum Ghar
...than that, I never experienced an IED or anything. And I'm thankful for it. INTERVIEWER: Was anyone injured in your unit by that RPG? GARZA: No, not that I know...
Wisconsin Veterans Museum to Close on Mondays
...Art Museum. Please visit our updated and redesigned website at www.wisvetsmuseum.com for more information about public programs, hours of operation and various online resources. Wisconsin Veterans Museum staff members look...
Stories of a M.A.S.H. Dr. in the Buna Campaign
...May, 1942, arrived in Adelaide, South Australia. In July, the 32nd built Camp Cable in Queensland, just as the Japanese troops landed on the island of New Guinea, only 90...
Remembering the Korean Armistice: 1,100 Days as a Prisoner of War
...I was. And I looked over there and I seen the American flag and I couldn't-- I went over there and I just-- I put my arms around that pole,...