Recent News - 2015

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  The Sullivan Brothers: 80 years later, 'people do care, and people do remember'

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Thursday, November 10, 2022

  Maybe they were brash. Maybe they were foolhardy. Maybe they were just five more victims in a war with hundreds of millions of victims. But maybe, just maybe, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert Sullivan were heroes as well.

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  Grout's 'Voices of Iowa' project goes 'on the road' to hear of veterans sacrifice.

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, October 12, 2022

  Gordon Mooney went to war at age 49. It was 50 years after one of his teachers at Sac High School, Roland Harklau, did the same. Harklau taught history. Both he and Mooney became part of it, a half century apart.

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  Waterloo vet, dad kept their promise during WWII

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, September 7, 2022

  Elmore Herold had a "close shave" in World War II. His father Carl didn't shave at all - not until his boy got home.

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  Downed Iowa airman, 99, saved by French in WWII

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Friday, August 12, 2022

  Mike Bisek had an extended tour of the mountains of southern France 78 years ago this month. But it was hardly a vacation.

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  Items from WWII Navy chaplain, Waterloo pastor on display at Grout

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, July 13, 2022

  The Grout Museum District has received a donation of artifacts of a World War II military chaplain and longtime Waterloo Catholic pastor who was a witness to history.

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