Recent News - 2024

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  Waterloo Black history grant axed

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Monday, April 14, 2025

  "Black Stories Collective" oral history project falls victim to federal cuts; Waterloo's Grout Museum resolves to continue initiative.

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  It's 'Anchors Aweigh' for new USS Iowa

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Tuesday, March 11, 2025

  Submarine will be commissioned into the U.S. Navy in April 5 ceremony

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  Swedish family renews NATO-forged bonds with retired Waterloo general

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Wednesday, February 12, 2025

  A retired U.S. Army Reserve major general received some international visitors this week -- the family of a fellow NATO officer with whom he served.

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  'Sully sailor' gets story told at Grout before his passing

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Tuesday, January 7, 2025

  We at the Grout Museum District were very saddened to hear of the passing Dec. 31 of USS The Sullivans sailor Robert Bielak of Merrillville, Ind. - less than two months after he was here for Veterans Day observances at the Grout Museum District and the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum.

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  Remember the Heroes of Bastogne

  Posted by Pat Kinney on Monday, December 9, 2024

  It's a Dec. 25, 1944 photo of soldiers of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division celebrating Catholic Mass on Christmas Day at Bastogne, Belgium - even as they were surrounded by Nazi troops during the Battle of the Bulge. The battle began nine days earlier.

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