New Exhibit Profiles Four Wisconsin Medals of Honor and Coincides With Veterans Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2013 NEW EXHIBIT PROFILES FOUR WISCONSIN MEDALS OF HONOR AND COINCIDES WITH VETERANS DAY MADISON, Wis. (Nov. 7, 2013) ― Nearly 100 years ago, on...

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The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Earns 2013 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence

...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. About TripAdvisor: TripAdvisor is the world’s largest...

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2011 Golf Outing to Support Museum’s 150th Sesquicentennial Programs and Exhibits

...outing, or the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and Foundation, contact Jennifer Carlson at (608) 264-6086 or go to www.WVMFoundation.com. -30- 201 West Washington Avenue | Madison, Wisconsin 53707 1-800-WIS-VETS | WisVets@dva.wisconsin.gov...

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

...sox size 10? I could buy them here but Marshall Field & Co’s store here wants 50¢ per pair and that is too much. It is time for bed now...

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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

...also furnished with 50¢ a meal for the length of my trip but had to buy my own sleeper. I had dinner at the Hanson’s and left about 9:40. My...

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WVMF Convoy Speaker Series Featuring Former SSG Eric Maddox

...Richfield, Camp Hometown Heroes and the Fisher House Wisconsin. All proceeds benefit programs and exhibits at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Click here to buy tickets Thank you to our sponsors!...

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Souvenirs Prohaska Quote

...buy, money, I’ll trade, I’m a merchant.' He came up to us and the lighters had the Twin Towers on them and a plane going into it, and a picture...

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Marcia Gates Photo

Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan in the Lost Battalion

...Gates refused to give up hope. She saved up money to buy a small lakeside cottage and furnished it for her daughter’s return. For the first two years of Gates’...

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Headshot photograph of Alannah McReavey

Alannah McReavey on Giving Back

...and buy Christmas gifts and then wrap them there for the gifts. And then we also did all the, you know, the towels, irons, all that other stuff, too. So...

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