Pat Kinney

Pat is the Oral Historian for the Grout Museum District.

Blog posts by this Author:

• Late Iowa sailors saved Vietnam refugees in '54

  Sailors from Waterloo, Solon served in Operation Passage to Freedom

• Citizenship dream came true for Waterloo soldier

  Hector Salamanca Arroyo became an American citizen in Africa while serving America as a soldier. He just marked his fifth Fourth of July as a U.S. citizen - even though he's lived in this country since he was a toddler, most of that time in Iowa.

• Grout's restored 'Ironman' banner part of huge Waterloo 250th Fourth flag display

  Flag soon to be permanently displayed at Sullivan museum.

• Iwo Jima Survivor David Greene

  An American hero in war and peace from Waterloo and a friend of many of us, David Greene, has passed away at age 101.

• Iowa Pearl Harbor vets recount day in new film

  "Voices of Iowa: Pearl Harbor" to premiere at Grout Museum District Jan. 31.

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