The
Restored
Burlington Northern Depot & WWII Memorial Museum
depothill.net
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The
168th Infantry
Regiment
and
the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division
continue
to carry-on a proud legacy of commitment,
sacrifice,
and the warrior spirit.
Click on the
following selections to read about personnel on the war
fronts and home fronts, their families, deployments,
activities,
histories, archives,
associations, projects, databases,
militaria, museums, and
military related websites.
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News about present-day Red
Bull soldiers and their deployments,
including photos and
videos:
http://www.redbullrising.com/
(
Red Bull Rising )
https://www.facebook.com/TheRedBulls
(
34th Red Bull Infantry Division – facebook )
https://www.facebook.com/IowaRedBulls/ ( 2nd Brigade,
34th Infantry Division –
facebook )
http://www.dvidshub.net/units/2-34IBCT
(
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division )
https://minnesotanationalguard.ng.mil/34id ( 34th
Infantry Division )
https://www.facebook.com/1st-Battalion-168th-Infantry-Regiment-110301519011593/
( 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment – facebook )
34th Infantry
Division Association
( 34th Infantry Division
Association – facebook )
42nd
Infantry Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation
website includes
newsletters,
History, and 42nd
Rainbow Memorial
location list. The
168th Infantry
Regiment
was assigned to the 42nd during
WWI. The 42nd was
active thru WWII,
the Cold War, and
continues service to the Nation.
The Iowa National Guard Armory in Red Oak Iowa contains an exhibit room with
168th Infantry Regiment ( Third Iowa ) mementos. For an appointment to visit the exhibit,
email The Restored Burlington Northern & WWII Memorial Museum: museum@depothill.net
The 34th
Red Bull
Infantry Division Association:
http://www.34ida.org
Units, History, Documents, Newsletters, Chapter
contacts
Also
click on https://www.pinterest.com/34ida/
Uniforms, artwork
& graphics, books &
documents, patches
How
the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division assists in
addressing
global
security challenges:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/34id.htm/
Veterans History Project
– biographies,
videos,
audios and transcribed manuscriptts,
by and about veterans of wars
from WWI thru Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sponsored by the Library of
Congress.
History of Memorial
Day
https://www.va.gov/opa/speceven/memday/history.asp
History
of Veterans Day
http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp
11
am,
11 November 2021:
Centennial
of the burial of an
Unknown Soldier from
World War I,
in Arlington National
Cemetery.
Read
about the tributes at
Society of the Honor Guard – Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Sullivan
Brothers
Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo.
Exhibits
of Iowans serving on the
War and Home fronts
from the
American War of Succession
thru the present-day.
Mississippi
Valley Veterans Memorial
in
Burlington.
2,000+ Veterans names
inscribed on tablets.
National
Society of Pershing Rifles. “To develop, to the
highest degree
possible, outstanding traits
of leadership, military science, military
bearing, and discipline
within a framework of a military oriented,
honorary
fraternity.” Founded
in 1894 under the
auspices of
John J. Pershing,
Professor of Military Science and Tactics
at the
University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
The Military Order
of the Purple
Heart
(Chapter 0260-NE-2 encompasses Southwest Iowa and Eastern Nebraska):
http://www.purpleheart.org/
Mission includes providing
service to all
veterans and their families.
Patriotic
Productions
- Remembering Our Fallen (traveling photographic
war memorial), Flights of Honor (Veterans travel
to Washington,
D.C.),
Patriotic Events, and
oral histories
by World War II Veterans.
Extensive
military artifacts and documents in
Shenandoah, Iowa,
at
the Shenandoah
Historical
Museum
Veterans
Memorial
Museum,
Shenandoah, Iowa
Montgomery County Iowa military research website:
http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/military/ndx.htm
Montgomery County Iowa
Veterans Memorial
Court of Honor
“Support
our Troops, Remember our Veterans”
http://www.mccourtofhonor.com/
The Iowa
Gold Star Military
Museum at Camp Dodge, Iowa,
honors, preserves, and relates the
military experience
of Iowa
citizens in war, thru indoor and outdoor
exhibits,
memorabilia,
and an extensive library. Four
page overview including photos.
Iowa
National
Guard
– historical briefs, from the Territorial Militia thru
wars in the 19th
and 20th Centuries, to
the present, including State Service.
Iowa
Veterans’
Perspective
– “Sharing Stories of
Service”
on social media with video
interviews.
General
of the
Armies John J. Pershing Boyhood Home
State
Historic
Site. Laclede,
Linn
County, MO.
Pritzker Military
Museum & Library,
Chicago, IL, offers more
than 10,000 maps, photos, posters, artifacts in their online
catalog.
The
Veterans Memorial Museum in Branson, Missouri is
a
national tribute to the brave men
and women who
defended
our
liberties during the 20th Century
http://www.veteransmemorialbranson.com/
National Infantry Museum, Columbus GA
(adjacent to Fort Benning) -
Galleries, Exhibits,
Theater, Archives
http://nationalinfantrymuseum.org/
Encyclopedic Military
History Online, encompassing
2500 years from the
Punic Wars to The War on
Terror,
with articles, forums, maps,
reviews, genealogy.
Registries (these are work in progress) of U.S. Service Veterans:
www AAD.ARCHIVES.GOV (National Archives)
www.LCWEB2.LOC.GOV (Library of Congress)
www.GRAVELOCATOR.CEM.VA.GOV
(Veterans Administration)
Military personnel files:
DD FORM 214 (Discharge from active military
service Duty)
Obtaining military personnel files from the
National Archives
Military personnel files can be recorded in county
Recorder Offices, free of charge, to
facilitate
retrieval:
State of Iowa Recorder Offices duties regarding military
personnel records
Patriot Outreach
- provides
vital resources and volunteer
opportunities for
personal transformation and life-changing capabilities for our
Patriots and
their
Families. Reaching
out with education,
training, and therapy to help them come
all the way home. Supporting
active
& retired service warriors and 1st
responders.
military.com -
for service members and veterans, DOD news and resources
Iowa Department of Veterans
Affairs -
County Veterans offices, Education,
Home Base Iowa & employment, Health
care, State &
local service
organizations, Legal clinics, Legislative resources,
Benefits for
Veterans.
Iowa Veterans Home -
Marshalltown
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Perhaps, by
Vera Brittain - a nurse in WWI. Poem dedicated to her
Fiancé Roland Aubrey Leighton,
killed in 1915 in the Great War:
Perhaps
some day the sun will shine again,
And
I shall see that still the
skies are blue,
And
feel once more I do not
live in vain,
Although
bereft of You.
Perhaps the
golden meadows at my feet
Will
make the sunny hours of
spring seem gay,
And
I shall find the white
May-blossoms sweet,
Though
You have passed away.
Perhaps the
summer woods will shimmer
bright,
And
crimson roses once again be
fair,
And
autumn harvest fields a rich
delight,
Although
You are not there.
Perhaps some day I
shall not shrink in pain
To see
the passing of the dying
year,
And
listen to Christmas songs
again,
Although
You cannot hear.
But
though kind Time may
many joys renew,
There is
one greatest joy I
shall not know
Again,
because my heart for loss
of You
Was
broken, long ago.
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Burlington Northern Depot
& WWII Memorial Museum
http://depothill.net/
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