Wisconsin Veterans Museum to Close on Mondays
...St., across the street from the State Capitol. For more information on the Museum, visit www.wisvetsmuseum.com. -30- 201 West Washington Avenue | Madison, Wisconsin 53707 1-800-WIS-VETS | WisVets@dva.wisconsin.gov | WisVets.com...
Wisconsin Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Kicks Off the 150th Commemoration of the Civil War with a Special Program at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
...Commission was organized by the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, under the direction of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, to coordinate the efforts by Wisconsin’s museums, libraries, schools and universities, historical...
NEW ART EXHIBIT: IN MY SPARE MOMENTS, THE ART OF HAROLD F. SCHMITZ
...1942. During this campaign, he served in New Guinea, Guadalcanal, Northern Solomon Islands, Southern Philippines, and Luzon. While there, Harold established himself as a skilled observer and created exploratory drawings...
IN MY SPARE MOMENTS: THE ART OF HAROLD F. SCHMITZ
...Military & Veteran Services Hometown Painting Services, LLC Gerald Miller Oregon-Brooklyn Memorial, VFW Post 10272 WAVE-Wisconsin Association of Veteran Employers For museum hours visit: www.wisvetsmuseum.com/contact/ For media inquiries visit: www.wisvetsmuseum.com/newsroom/...
“Walking Point with London” by Kylee Sekosy
...sixteen weeks of training, ten handlers and their dogs, including Hooker and his scout, London, volunteered to go to Vietnam. London, a German shepherd, worked with Hooker as the “point-man.”...
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy by Emily Irwin
...was Gunner’s Mate Stanley Gruber. A Butler, Wisconsin native, Gruber entered the Navy in 1939 and was stationed aboard the USS Maryland. In April 1940, the battleship left Long Beach,...
Remember Pearl Harbor
...that day. Lieutenant Rhoda Ziesler returning home in Hawaii from the Schofield Barracks hospital, December 9, 1941 after the December 7, 1941 attack. Rhoda Ziesler collection, WVM Mss 1914 Rhoda...
We Hope You Enjoyed the Tour
...the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation. Although this year the tour is free, producing it was not. If you received any bit of enjoyment, intrigue, or entertainment from the tour, please...
Wisconsin Rapids Mark E. Anderson Reflects on Iraq
...flight home, and I fly into Fort Dix, New Jersey, arrive there-- again, it's midnight, 1:00 a.m. It's dark. I get off the plane. And it's cliché, but, you know,...