Wisconsin’s Warrior Poets
The connection between veterans and poetry surprises much of the public. But it should not; the conditions of combat, moments of sheer terror separated by long periods of boredom and waiting, can create fertile ground for creative thinking by those who serve. This month is National Poetry Month, and Wisconsin
Book Talk with Joshua Shores
Author and veteran Joshua Shores discusses his work, "Counting On Death: A Marine Infantryman’s Journey from the Frontlines of Combat to the Fight for Peace."
Media Alert: U.S. MARINE CORPS CELEBRATES 250TH BIRTHDAY IN MADISON
U.S. MARINE CORPS CELEBRATES 250TH BIRTHDAY IN MADISON MADISON (Nov 6, 2025) — Join the Wisconsin Veterans Museum on November 10th as we commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. Mark this milestone and honor the true spirit of our American Marines through their honor, courage, and commitment
U.S. Marine Corps 250 Birthday Celebration at the State Capitol
Celebrate the U.S. Marine Corps 250th birthday at the Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda.
Tarra Gundrum on What is Possible
Tarra Rimone Pickens (later Gundrum) grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She attended Cleveland Junior Naval Academy, an area Navy Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (NJROTC) high school, and determined by the age of seventeen that she wanted to join the United States Marine Corps, enlisting in 1998 at seventeen-and-a-half
FOX VALLEY VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES
The Wisconsin Veterans Museum (WVM) collects and publishes a substantial number of veteran interviews from the Fox Valley and the surrounding area. Additionally, we act as the dark archives for several interviews from that region of Wisconsin. These Fox Valley oral history interviews range from the current day back to World