The Bugle, Spring 2023

From the collection of Richard E. Jump, a Howards Grove, Wisconsin resident who served in the United States Army in and after the Vietnam War. From 1962 to 1963, then-Lieutenant Jump served as temporary duty (TDY) advisor in Vietnam. He was a member of the 15th Reproduction Detachment of the 14th Psychological Operations Battalion. As part of the 97th Civilian Affairs Group, Jump traveled to the villages in the region and during his last month in Vietnam, worked with the 5th Vietnamese Infantry Division. After his temporary duty in Vietnam, Jump spent the next twenty-one years in the Engineer Army Reserve units, and retired in 1984 as a lieutenant colonel..

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PRESIDENT

DAN CHECKI

VICE PRESIDENT

JOANE MATHEWS

TREASURER

DAVE HEILIGER

SECRETARY

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11/16/22–2/8/23

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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A most sincere thank you to all who donated to our collection from November 2022–February 2023. Thank you for your generosity and support of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.

Linda Abegglen

American Legion Post 172 in North Freedom

Steve Brunn

Kay Doran

Janet and Dan Gasser

James Haugen

Lisa Jaster

Jim Klenke

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Wendy Lehr

MUSEUM MISSION

The mission of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum is to commemorate, acknowledge, and affirm the role of Wisconsin veterans in America’s military past and present

Donald Litzer

JoAnn Mercurio

David Merriam

Louise Moore

Eric Oxendorf

Suzanne Perkins

Ken Prieur

Kevin Scallon

Mark Thornton

Mary Turner

The Bugle is published quarterly for our members and friends through the support of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation provides funds for the support of artifact acquisitions, exhibit production, and the development of educational programs.

Slide from the collection of Paul Wahler (WVM Mss 1817), a Racine, Wisconsin resident who served as engineer equipment officer with the 14th Engineer Battalion, 45th Engineer Group in the Vietnam War. While serving in Vietnam, Wahler visited many job sites for the Engineer Group, documenting his travels in slides taken from various vehicles. These images feature the work of the Engineer Group, local towns, civilians, aerial photographs of the land and beaches, and views of the land from the road. On November 18, 1967, Paul Wahler was killed in a vehicle crash in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam. He is buried in West Lawn Memorial Park, Racine, Wisconsin.

FROM THE SECRETARY-DESIGNEE

Greetings! I am honored and grateful for the opportunity to serve as WDVA Secretarydesignee for the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs. As many of you know, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum continues to stand as a shining beacon of Wisconsin’s proud veteran heritage. With the new year already here, we remain resolute to find ways to embrace challenges and opportunities to tell more veterans’ stories.

Collecting, telling, and sharing unique stories of veterans that represent cozy small towns to larger diverse urban regions of Wisconsin, is key to bridging the narrative between the extended veteran community and our state’s citizens. I am pleased that this issue is dedicated to emphasizing veteran stories from the southeastern corner of Wisconsin and the greater Milwaukee-area, while also commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War and those who served during this era.

It is noteworthy to mention this year also marks the 30th anniversary of the Museum in its current location on the Capitol Square in downtown Madison. It is has stood as a stalwart reminder for those elected officials who represent Wisconsin citizens. In addition, it has attracted thousands of annual visitors, tourists, and students eager to learn about the proud service, sacrifice, and heritage of our state’s veterans. I am excited to see what new stories will be told in the coming year.

With Governor Tony Evers recent announcement of additional financial support in his 2023-25 state budget for WDVA services and support programs, I am excited to see how that can benefit our continuing efforts with the Museum in the coming year.

My humble appreciation to the exceptional efforts of our Museum’s director Chris Kolakowski, his dedicated curators, talented staff, and the WVM Foundation Board for their commitment to telling the stories of our rich Wisconsin veteran history representing all areas of our state.

I encourage you to visit the museum this year and discover the new exhibits and stories of our veterans on display with a personal connection from your region of Wisconsin.

Yours in Service,

James Bond Secretary-designee, Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs

FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, Greetings from Madison! It is an exciting time at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum as we honor the past and look toward the future. This issue will give you a sense of what is going on.

This time of year, we observe two very important anniversaries. First is the 50th anniversary of the end of major U.S. involvement in Vietnam on March 29, 1973. The All-Volunteer Force, which was created in January 1973 and built by the Vietnam generation of leaders, serves the United States to this day. The largest single cohort of veterans today is the Vietnam generation, and they deserve recognition for their service and legacies.

The second anniversary is 30 years at 30 West Mifflin Street in downtown Madison. We stand on the shoulders of Dr. Richard Zeitlin, who masterminded the move out of the Capitol and into our facility, pictured at left. However, we’ve also pretty much outgrown our current space and need to secure the museum’s future for the next 50-75 years. Our vision and plan, developed with our partners, will do just that once funding is secured.

This issue also continues our approach of focusing on a specific region of Wisconsin, highlighting stories in our collection from that area. This time we’re exploring the wealth of stories in Milwaukee and environs.

Our extensive online offerings continue to attract audiences from across the state, nation, and world. We are continuing them with a mix of in-person events at the museum itself, and you can find the latest information on our website.

All of this is only possible with the help and support of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation. Working together, I am confident we will sustain this momentum and continue to make great things happen.

Best wishes to all of you and thank you for your continuing support. See you at the museum soon.

Best,

Chris Kolakowski

Hans Chester Jensen , who often went by Chester, was born in Bristol, Wisconsin. He was living in Kenosha County when he enlisted into the U.S. Marine Corps on January 17, 1938. He served for more than two years in China before the U.S. entered World War II, helping to protect U.S. citizens living there during fighting and civil unrest. He re-enlisted in January 1942 and served in the Pacific Theater with the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. He was killed in action on Guadalcanal on September 25, 1942.

Mary Weis, a Milwaukee native, enlisted into the U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve, also known as SPARS (Semper Paratus—Always Ready). During World War II, she held the rank of storekeeper and worked as a payroll accountant in Boston. As the war came to an end, she helped many sailors muster out of the Coast Guard and return home.

Following her active service, she served 20 years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. She helped found Milwaukee’s first all-female American Legion post and was very active in many veteran organizations.

By: Russ Horton Reference Archivist

VETERAN IS A STORY

COLLECTIONS FROM THE

Wayne D. Mutza of Milwaukee was honorably discharged from the U.S. Army during the spring of 1972, less than a year before the January 1973 signing of the Paris Peace Accords that ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the subsequent two-month troop withdrawal process that followed. Mutza’s story is just one of over 250 in the museum’s object collection relating to veterans who served during the Vietnam War. It also represents a period when U.S. troop involvement in Vietnam decreased significantly from a 1969 peak of nearly 550,000 to 69,000 troops by the time Mutza headed home in 1972.

After enlisting in 1969, Mutza served initially with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina prior to his tour. Upon his early 1971 arrival in Vietnam, SP4 Mutza served out of Camp Bearcat near Biên Hòa as a crew chief on a UH1H Huey helicopter (or “Slick”) with the 240th Assault Helicopter Company. He then transferred to Lai Khê to serve with F Troop, 4th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division as a helicopter crew chief/observer/gunner on a Hughes OH-6A Cayuse helicopter, a Light Observation Helicopter (LOH) whose acronym earned it the nickname “Loach.” Paired with one or two Bell AH-1G Cobra helicopters, his OH-6A Loach made up part of a hunter-killer team, with the Loach taking a risky, low altitude position to scout out enemy positions for the faster

attack Cobras circling above. These types of missions proved to be some of the most hazardous and inherently dangerous of the Vietnam War.

Mutza returned with several personalized and locally-made items to document his 1971-1972 tour, including a “Wisconsin” labelled boonie cap depicting comic strip beagle Snoopy in Flying Ace character, flame-resistant Nomex flight shirt with theater-made Recondo patch (derived from RECONnaissance commanDO) reflecting his in-country specialized training, and a locally made patch from his time with the 240th AHC depicting the Huey he nicknamed “Nightmare” and a misspelling of his name to “MUZA,” which he explained as a common alternation by the Vietnamese due to a lack of “T” sound in their language. He also returned with a unique tigerstripe camouflage uniform in Vietnamese Marine Corps-type pattern which he acquired in a trade late in his tour.

Following his service, Mutza returned to the Milwaukee area and worked as a firefighter for nearly two decades with the City of Milwaukee. As an aviation historian, he has also authored over 30 books since the 1980s. Most focused on military helicopters and other aircraft of the Vietnam War era including the Loach and Huey. He is also a founding member of the Vietnam Helicopter Crewmembers Association.

By: Andrea Hoffman Collections Manager

By: Kevin Hampton Curator of History

OnJune 6, 1993

after more than 80 years at its location in the Wisconsin State Capitol, the G.A.R. Memorial Hall evolved into what is now the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and opened at a new location at the top of State Street on the Capitol Square. The move came after years of planning and packing, which included the mammoth task of retrofitting the Ben Franklin store that occupied 30 West Mifflin Street into an adequate space for a then-state-of-the-art museum.

While in the Capitol, the space was known primarily as the “Civil War Museum.” This moniker was based off its founding by Civil War veterans in 1901 and the fact that the 2,640 square feet of exhibition space primarily focused on the Civil War artifacts in the collection. Although there is a statutory mandate to also commemorate Wisconsin’s role in “any subsequent war,” and Wisconsin’s veterans stories provided plenty of opportunity, the G.A.R. Memorial Hall Museum lacked the room to expand.

Improvement initiatives focused on bringing the museum up to professional standards – including the hiring of the first professional curator – further demonstrated that the space was inadequate at a professional museum level. More important, the space in the Capitol impeded its ability to truly honor the World Wars generations, much less Korea and Vietnam, and those generations that follow. Ultimately, it was the limitations of space that dictated the necessity for either a significant redevelopment and modernization or a new location. In 1979 a modernization plan was rejected by the state legislature. Undeterred, the Wisconsin veteran community championed the development for a new museum space. In 1985 WWII veteran and Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs John Maurer secured a political agreement that allowed the museum to search for space outside the Capitol to develop exhibits incorporating the contributions

Staff and volunteers improvised the unloading of the Stuart tank upon its arrival.

of Wisconsin’s veterans in the 20th century. In 1989, Governor Tommy Thompson approved the acquisition of a new leased space across the street from the Capitol with the intent to purchase the location at some point in the future. For the first time in its history, the G.A.R. Memorial Hall Museum had an opportunity to create a more professional and engaging visitor experience with over 10,000 square feet of exhibition space.

The design team laid out an exhibit plan in a timeline approach from the Civil War up to then-current day. Generally, the timeline of events is a good approach as it meets the audience where they’re at in their understanding of history. The issue with that approach is that what defines present day is fluid. Unless you build in flexibility and room

to expand, space constraints will catch up very quickly as time always moves forward. This truth was evident even from the date the G.A.R. museum closed from November 10, 1989 to when the Wisconsin Veterans Museum opened on June 6, 1993. In those 3.5 years at least 95 Wisconsinites died while serving. Our world changed significantly: the Berlin Wall fell, the Cold War was declared ended, the Soviet Union dissolved, Operations Just Cause (Panama), Desert Shield, and Desert Storm occured, no-fly zones over Iraq were established, and the first World Trade Center bombing occurred. Fortunately, there was time in the design phase to adjust for inclusion of those significant stories but the space available meant that future inclusion of stories from anything beyond the Desert Storm era would mean taking away from some other era’s stories.

The Stuart tank made its entrace from the alley behind the museum through large loading doors in the rear of the 20th century gallery.

As we know, history is always on-going and rarely cleanly stops like an end to a chapter in a book. Perhaps it’s even tragic coincidence that the day before the grand opening at 30 W Mifflin, there was an attack on UN forces in Somalia that ultimately led to the fateful events in Mogadishu that October which claimed the life of another Wisconsinite. Within those initial years, the timeline continued to grow and Wisconsin Was There: Bosnia, Kosovo, the Third Taiwan Straits Crisis, Operations Desert Strike and Desert Fox in Iraq, and those are just in the first seven years after opening that rounded out the decade and closed the millennium.

Nonetheless, the opening of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in 1993 was a dramatic milestone in the institution’s history not only in terms of space, but also in terms of community engagement through the development of the new exhibits. Within the walls of the repurposed Ben Franklin store, large, beautiful murals were painted by nationally renowned military history artist Keith Rocco. Veterans, their families, and military history enthusiasts alike contributed material for the dioramas, and in some cases even posed as models for the mannequins. The Wisconsin National Guard was instrumental with the transport and installation of the oversized aircraft and vehicles that have become focal points of the displays.

And with the grand opening itself, the engagement of the community was as evident as ever. The speakers at the ceremony included Secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Jesse Brown, Governor Tommy Thompson, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs Ray Boland, and others.

The full-scale bi-plane model was based off the plane flown by WWI Ace Rodney Williams of Delafield, Wisconsin.

The full-scale P-51 Mustang model was based off the plane “Ole’ Goat” flown by WWII Double Ace George “Pop” Doersch of Seymour, Wisconsin.

The Civil War battle flags, a foundational display of the old GAR Memorial Hall Museum in the Capitol, were carefully packed and transported to their new home across the street.

The Wisconsin National Guard’s 132nd Army Band played as helicopters from the Guard performed a flyover. Activeduty members of the 101st Airborne Division Parachute Demonstration Team performed a jump landing in the street in front of the new museum. Civil War reenactors paid tribute to the original generation of Wisconsin veterans that started the museum nearly 90 years before. Over 7,700 people attended the opening festivities that day. In his remarks, Governor Tommy Thompson summarized the significance of the museum and its symbolic meaning to our state’s veterans, their families, and all its citizens: “It’s absolutely essential to honor those who served… the museum is the story of Wisconsin veterans, of citizens called to arms… this museum is for you.”

Today the museum staff faces similar challenges as leaders did in the 1980s. How do we adequately tell the stories and honor our veterans from all eras of service as time passes? This is the question we consider daily as we strive to honor, commemorate, and affirm the role of all Wisconsin veterans in our nation’s military history: past, present, and future.

(Top right) A member of the 101st Airborne Division Parachute Demonstration Team comes in for a landing on Mifflin Street, right in front of the museum.

(Above right) Baton passed by the 101st Airborne Division Parachute Demonstration Team in freefall by members of the Screaming Eagles.

(Top left) Members of the 1st Brigade Band played at the closing ceremony program of the GAR Memorial Hall Museum in the capitol in 1989. Note the Civil War battle flags furled behind the band members.

(Bottom left) As a poetic bookend, the 1st Brigade Band played at the opening ceremony of the brand-new Wisconsin Veterans Museum in 1993.

(Opposite) Nationally renowned military history artist Keith Rocco painted the diorama murals in the galleries.

MUSEUM STAFF MEET THE

GATEKEEPER OF COLLECTIONS: THIS IS SARAH KAPELLUSCH

MUSEUM REGISTRAR

Sarah says, “I appreciate not being limited to a single collection or focus area. I also like the challenge that sometimes comes with determining the best way to present an item to the public; cleaning and preparing items for exhibit while maintaining the history of a piece.”

As the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Registrar, Sarah Kapellusch oversees all the potential donations that are offered to the museum. This oversight includes recording paperwork, shooting photographs, writing condition reports, and making recommendations to the museum collection committee. Sarah is devoted to preserving the objects that tell our veterans’ stories from managing the object conservation program to handling the collections database.

Although she is not a veteran herself, she enjoys working with veterans and their families to help them tell their stories and share their experiences during service. She particularly enjoys the Civil War diaries in the collection and learning about the Civil War through the eyes of the veterans that served.

Sarah thinks her position is unique in that she gets to work with everything that comes into the museum collections.

On the downside, Sarah says, “While we appreciate every item and every story that is offered to us, we cannot accept everything. I may contact a donor to turn down a donation offer because something is out of scope, lacks a Wisconsin connection, is already represented in the collection, or because sometimes we recognize that we may not be able to care for something because of its condition or inherent vice. It is not easy to tell someone that we can’t accept their donation to the collection because we truly do value the veteran, their story, and the items that are offered to us, and we are grateful for the opportunity to hear the stories.”

If you stop in to visit Sarah, be sure to make a racket before entering the room, she’s a huge fan of true-crime podcasts. We don’t recommend startling her.

By: Jennifer Stevenson Sr. Marketing Specialist

BEHIND THE SCENES EDUCATION TEAM

If you’ve ever taken a tour of a cultural attraction, it’s likely you’ve encountered the work of an education team. At the Wisconsin Veterans Museum (WVM), the “ed team” as they’re called by their WVM colleagues is led by Erik Wright , education specialist, with support from Beth Stofflet and Molly Snow.

As the “face” of the ed team, Erik manages the department, books talent for events, and develops programming in collaboration with several museum departments. Beth Stofflet contributes oodles of programs ideas inspired by her years as a middle school teacher. She also coordinates our volunteer corps when she isn’t with a group in the galleries. Molly Snow, known as “the rock” for her grounded approach to giving tours, coordinates travel trunk outreach materials, and manages the department’s digital content which includes every online event the museum produces. You can find her work on the museum’s YouTube channel.

This team not only plans and produces all tours at WVM, which more than 11,000 people of all ages enjoyed last year, they also develop and produce lectures, workshops, outreach, and special events. You may be familiar with some of their hits, like the annual Talking Spirits Cemetery Tours and quarterly Mess Night. With this variety of tasks to accomplish they are in constant coordination with all the museum departments as they create programs to

share in-house, online, and to export across the state.

The education department at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum is capable of so many fantastic and unique endeavors that no matter how impossible or improbable a request may seem, ask the ed team anyway. Often, they will come up with a workable solution that puts Wisconsin history at the fore. The teams regularly looks for community and state-wide opportunities to export museum educational materials and raise awareness of all the museum offers.

Next time you’re on a tour, send a little thought of gratitude to the educators behind your experience.

By: Jennifer Stevenson Sr. Marketing Specialist

Left to right: Beth Stofflet, Erik Wright, and Molly Snow— WVM's "Ed Team."

The Shop at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum now carries the pottery of Dave Lyons, a veteran of Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, and retired registered nurse. Lyon attended a pottery demonstration in college while earning a registered nursing degree on the GI Bill after Vietnam. He’d served in combat hospitals with the 45th Surgical Hospital in Tay Ninh and the 12th Evac Hospital in Cu Chi.

Although he has been interested in the craft ever since he first saw the potter on campus in 1973, Lyons’ career and family obligations left him little time to get behind a wheel. Not until 2002, when he and his wife were empty-nesters did he take a pottery class at a local cultural center. With his renaissance, Lyons refined his craft, and now sells his work from his studio, The New Pittsville Pottery.

Pick up a piece of functional art and support the veteran community.

Over the last thirty years, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum (WVM) Oral History Program has come a long way. Central to the program has always been a deep respect and solid partnership with the veterans we interview. Trained volunteers further enhance that close relationship.

For three decades, volunteers have shaped and formed the bedrock of the oral history program at WVM. Though later enhanced by paid staff, without the generosity of the volunteers, this program would be much less than it is today.

The results of those efforts have been nothing short of spectacular. The museum holds the fourth largest veterans oral history collection in the United States; it is more significant than most state historical society oral history programs. The other three oral history programs preceding us in size are national-level programs.

The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Oral History Collection spans from the

An Oral History Program... to Be Proud Of

By: Luke Sprague Oral Historian

Spanish-American War to those veterans who most recently served in Afghanistan. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Oral History Program began in June 1994 with the interview of a D-Day veteran from Madison. Mark Van Ells, the museum’s first archivist, conducted approximately two hundred interviews. Next, volunteer James McIntosh continued the work started by Van Ells and added another hundred interviews beginning in 1999.

In 2002, collections manager Gayle Martinson trained interviewers, expanding the volunteer force. These volunteers conducted hundreds of interviews increasing the depth and breadth of the collection. Major contributors with their first interview year listed are John K. Driscoll (2002), Terry MacDonald (2004), Jim Kurtz (2006), Ellen Bowers Healey (2008), and Rick Berry (2011).

The first person to hold the title of oral historian at WVM was Molly Graham, who served in that role from November 2011 to May 2013. Graham better structured the transcription process and

audited the collection. The second oral historian Ellen B. Brooks oversaw changes to the program from November 2013 to December 2018. She initiated the transition away from audio tape to pure digital recording. Brooks began multiple oral history projects, including I Am Not Invisible, Do Tell!, Real Life Library, Hmong SGU, Faces in the Sand, Millennials at War, Voices from Afghanistan, WAR-RAW, and Listening to War. Luke D. Sprague took over as the third oral historian in April 2019. He documented the entire oral history workflow and benchmarked the throughput. During Sprague’s time, the oral history program transitioned from audio to video as the primary interview format, built a dedicated interview room, created a traveling oral history kiosk, and used remote sensing to enhance the gallery experience. In addition, Sprague improved online findability, usability, and access with the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact with Luke Sprague at luke. sprague@dva.wisconsin.gov or (608) 261-0537.

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A Living Legacy

The veterans’ stories preserved in our Wisconsin Veterans Museum have provided me with many inspirations for these articles and the talks I’ve been asked to give at museum events. My perspective widened at our Convoy Speaker Series in La Crosse, sponsored by Edgewood College Military & Veterans Services, where I heard a moving presentation by Vietnam veteran Don Weber describing his experiences and outreach efforts to homeless and ill veterans.

The National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Ohio provides a model where the static displays, so necessary to bring the story of our military and our veterans to the public, is supplemented by an active center for veteran support including mental and physical health counseling, job and housing aid and a place where veterans can meet and support one another. This model can turn a static museum into a living legacy where the historic story of Wisconsin’s service to our nation can be displayed, and those veterans still with us can be given a place where they can meet and get the help they need to return to civilian life.

The current plan for the new museum has space designed to provide for veteran meetings, lectures, and services. We should continue to solicit support for the new museum with a commitment to making the new venue a historic legacy to remember the veterans who have served from Wisconsin, and a living legacy to remember those veterans who served from Wisconsin and are still with us and need our support.

We are currently engaged in an important effort to raise enough support to provide the funding for the new Wisconsin Veterans Museum on Capitol Square. We should keep in mind, however, that Wisconsin veterans are with us today. Many suffer from PTSD. Many are homeless and struggle to adjust to civilian life after their experiences in combat zones over the last 20 years.

In gratitude,

Daniel Checki Foundation Board President

If you are interested in learning more about the project and want to pledge your support, please contact Jen Carlson at the Foundation.

Vietnam veteran Don Weber describing his experiences and outreach efforts to homeless.

Mark Your Calendar

TRIVIA NIGHT

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TRIVIA NIGHT

7:00–8:00PM

Join us for our virtual trivia night and test your historical knowledge. Individuals and teams welcome.

VIRTUAL DRINK & DRAW

7:00–8:00PM

Gather your art supplies, pour yourself a beverage, and bring your artistic energy as we spend the evening together stretching our creative muscles.

BOOK TALK

12:00–1:00PM

Militarization and the American Century

Please join us as Dr. David Fitzgerald talks about his newest work, Militarization and the American Century, which offers an introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940 by exploring the ways in which war and the preparation for war have shaped and affected the United States during 'The American Century.’

MESS NIGHT

5:30–8:00PM 20

Please join us for our quarterly dinner series with guest Philip Hall, who will be discussing his experiences of being an infantryman in Vietnam, and some prespective on the U.S. involvement in Vietnam after years of study on why we were there.

$38 Members | $46 Non-Members | $30 Students (W/ID)

MOVIE NIGHT

7:00–8:00PM

Tigerland (2000)

Grab some popcorn and a seat in your favorite chair and join us for a virtual discussion of the selected movie with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum staff.

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MOVIE NIGHT

7:00–8:00PM

Three Kings (1999)

Grab some popcorn and a seat in your favorite chair and join us for a virtual discussion of the selected movie with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum staff.

VIRTUAL DRINK & DRAW

7:00–8:00PM

Gather your art supplies, pour yourself a beverage, and bring your artistic energy as we spend the evening together stretching our creative muscles.

TRIVIA NIGHT

7:00–8:00PM

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7:00–8:00PM

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Grab some popcorn and a seat in your favorite chair and join us for a virtual discussion of the selected movie with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum staff.

*For detailed information and registration visit: WisVetsMuseum.com/events

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