-
Recent Posts
- “For the Use and Benefit of the People”: Foundations of the University of Wyoming
- The History of the Union Pacific Big Boy: The World’s Largest Steam Locomotive
- From Vision to Legacy: The Milward L. Simpson Fund’s Enduring Impact on UW Political Science
- The Nat King Cole They Knew
- Behind the Scenes at the Cone: Photo and Audio at the American Heritage Center
Archives
Categories
Subscribe
Email Subscription
Join 174 other subscribers
Tag Archives: military veterans
Celebrating UW Veterans
Being a land-grant university, the University of Wyoming is no stranger to military service. Currently home to the Army ROTC Cowboy Battalion and the Air Force ROTC 940th Cadet Wing, military service at UW stretches back to the university’s early … Continue reading
Posted in University of Wyoming, University of Wyoming history, World War I, World War II, Wyoming history
Tagged Air Force ROTC 940th Cadet Wing, Army ROTC Cowboy Battalion, military history, military veterans, Student Involvement, University of Wyoming, Veterans Day, World War I, World War I & II, World War II
Leave a comment
Ted and Johanna Gostas: Resilience Amidst Adversity
Johanna Gostas served as Wyoming coordinator for the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. Her husband, U. S. Army Maj. Theodore W. Gostas, was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese during the Tet Offensive … Continue reading
The Cowboy Battalion
2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Reserve Officer Training Corps at the University of Wyoming. Continue reading
World War I on both sides of the Atlantic
The hit miniseries “Downton Abbey” is educational as well as absorbing. With its World War I setting and its perspective from the British aristocracy, the fictional account of one family’s experience during the Great War might put you in the … Continue reading