Movie Screening: My Vietnam, Your Iraq
A generational story of war, service, and the families who carry the legacy. My Vietnam Your Iraq connects the stories of eight Vietnam veterans with the experiences of their own children who later deployed to serve in the Iraq War.
Breaks in Service: Roger Boeker’s Story
Roger Boeker was raised in Madison, Wisconsin by a family of military veterans. Just days before his September 1942 birth, Boeker's father Leonard enlisted in the U.S. Army for service during World War II. His uncles Orrin and Leon Slauson, brothers from Spring Green, Wisconsin, joined the U.S. Army Air
“Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War” Film Screening
The film, "Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War" follows Vietnam Veteran and Filmmaker Ron Osgood on his quest to recover fragmented and buried stories from all sides of the Vietnam War/American War, revealing multiple perspectives that are thematically interconnected.
Raul Waters: My Duty. I Never Regretted That.
Photo of Raul Waters from his April 27, 2000, interview. Raul Waters was born in 1936 in Cuba before immigrating to the United States as a child in 1945. Initially in Tampa, Florida, Waters grew up in Detroit, Michigan, then moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for his surgical residency. When the
James Megellas: Meeting a Hero; Knowing the Person
Meeting James “Maggie” Megellas will always be a highlight of my career with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Growing up, the World War II generation was almost larger-than-life in my perception. I was fortunate to grow up on stories from my grandparents and their generation at the peak of public memory
Distinguished Lecture Series: An Army Afire
Beth Bailey of the University of Kansas will lecture on her book, “An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” Thursday, April 4th at 4:00 pm Pyle Center Room 232 on the UW-Madison Campus Even as US troops fought in Vietnam, Black and
50th Anniversary of End of Vietnam War Marked at Wisconsin Veterans Museum
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Madison, Wis. (March 24, 2023) - On March 29, 1973, U.S. ground forces withdrew from South Vietnam. The withdrawal officially ended years of war that forever marked a generation. To mark the 50th anniversary of the official end of the Vietnam War, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum will
Mess Night
Please join us for our quarterly dinner series with guest Gregory A. Daddis, who is the Director of the Center for War and Society and the USS Midway Chair in Modern U.S. Military History. He will be speaking on his 2020 book, Pulp Vietnam : War and Gender in Cold
Ho-Chunk Warrior Owen C. Mike
This is the story of Ho-Chunk warrior, Owen C. Mike, known as Jąąpwakącąk in the Hoocąk language. A leader of the Buffalo Clan, Ho-Chunk Nation, Mike served in the Vietnam War and received the Silver Star Medal and Bronze Star Medal with valor device for his actions while under fire
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