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Some highlights from MAMF’s very busy 2014:

January 1, 2015 Circe Woessner Brats, Events, Military Family Members, Military News, Museum News, Museum of the American Military Family, The Board of Directors, Veterans

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better [person]. Benjamin Franklin

We at the Museum of the American Military Family would like to thank all of you who have helped us have a successful and wonderful year. We appreciate your kind words, support and participation! We look forward to a great 2015–

Some highlights from MAMF’s very busy 2014:

February

-Screened the Documentary Brown Babies at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM

March

Created two aprons for display as part of the Womyn’s Work Apron Project in Albuquerque

May through September

Exhibit: Sacrifice & Service: The American Military Family at the National Nuclear Museum (seen by 17, 116 visitors)

Activities as part of the exhibit: » Read more

FAST-PACED FALL FOR MAMF

December 13, 2014 Circe Woessner Military News, Museum News, Museum of the American Military Family, The Board of Directors

Allen Dale Olson, Secretary/Public Affairs

From Lovington to Los Alamos — “Sacrifice & Service,” the exhibit that attracted 17,116 visitors during its stay in the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History between Memorial Day and Labor Day, spent two months in the Lea County History Museum will spend December in the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos.

Photo of Sacrifice and Service at Nuclear Museum Poster

Sacrifice and Service at the Mesa Public Library

“Sacrifice & Service” is very much on our minds these days, as it will return home to Albuquerque right after the New Year’s holiday, and though we have arrangements to store it, we are hoping to find it a permanent home.

Meantime, we have started another exhibit and we’re calling it “Schooling with Uncle Sam,” the story of the Defense Department Dependents Schools and the students and teachers who have experienced them. We hope to have it completed by spring 2015. » Read more