Wisconsin Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Kicks Off the 150th Commemoration of the Civil War with a Special Program at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
...30 W. Mifflin St., across the street from the State Capitol. Visit our website at www.WisVetsMuseum.com. -30- 201 West Washington Avenue | Madison, Wisconsin 53707 1-800-WIS-VETS | WisVets@dva.wisconsin.gov | WisVets.com...
2011 Spring Programs at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War
...Veterans Affairs and is located at 30 W. Mifflin St., Madison, across the street from the State Capitol. For more information go to www.WisVetsMuseum.com. -30- 201 West Washington Avenue |...
NEW ART EXHIBIT: IN MY SPARE MOMENTS, THE ART OF HAROLD F. SCHMITZ
...in Milwaukee. The Hammersmith-Kortmeyer Company hired him for an entry-level position. With the beginning of WWII, Harold was drafted in 1942 and handpicked for the role of map maker with...
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
...the United States Marine Corps, spent three full tours of service in Vietnam. A young man “tired of school” and “brainwashed by John Wayne movies,” Hooker enlisted in the Marine...
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy by Emily Irwin
Stanley Gruber. Today marks the 73rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, where an estimated 200 Wisconsin men and women were stationed on December 7, 1941. One such Wisconsinite...
Remember Pearl Harbor
...Mss2003.003 Arthur G. “Art” Rortvedt of DeForest, Wisconsin registered for the draft in March on 1940, but preferring not to go into the Army, enlisted in the Army Air Corps...
Badgers and the Day of Infamy
...heels. These raiders targeted Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Naval Air Station, facing more prepared defenses than the first wave. As the Japanese appeared, Nevada was underway making a desperate breakout...
Wisconsin Rapids Mark E. Anderson Reflects on Iraq
...didn't, we moved them-- just push them off. And so it-- and I tell that only because, fast-forwarding a little bit to when I-- I come home on leave, and...