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An Amazing Museum Experience with WTMJ-TV
WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee featured the Remembered Light exhibit at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library in Kenosha, WI. Steph Brown took a spectacular tour with the Director of Museum Collections, Dustin DePue. She describes it as impactful and emotional. The museum ties the past, present and future together. Watch the video here.
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Assorted Verdun, Shards
“In mid-September 1944, we entered Verdun. Verdun is a grim city that enshrines memories of Attila the Hun, and is the great fortress-battlefield of the First World War. This martyr-city of world war is soaked with the blood of nearly one million men who fought four years of conflict under various flags.”
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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Coutances
“The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Coustances was the first great Gothic church we saw in our army advance. It was famous for the ‘dim religious light’ of its sparkling windows. Blasting bombs had shattered every one, and the interior was bright under the August sun. This made the architectural excellence more plainly seen since…
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Base Camp at Verdun
After only eighteen days in Paris, the 12th Army Group moved their headquarters to Verdun as Allied forces continued pushing the Germans eastward. Verdun, a city best known as a bloody World War I battleground, became Chaplain McDonald’s base for most of the war. While at base camp, Frederick McDonald shared close quarters with other…
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A Synagogue, a Protestant Church, a Catholic Church