Category: Museum of the American Military Family

Albuquerque Veterans Invited to Participate in Reading Program

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Talking Service Poster

The Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce and the Museum of the American Military Family have joined with the New Mexico Humanities Council to offer Talking Service, a new reading and discussion program for veterans to reflect on their service and the transition to civilian life.

Veterans will come together over the course of 4 sessions in April to discuss a variety of readings about military service. Each piece of literature, from the anthology Standing Down is a jumping off point for veterans to reflect on their own experiences in the military and returning home. Caroline LeBlanc, Writer-in-Residence, Museum of the American Military Family, will facilitate the discussions.

Every participant will receive a copy of Standing Down. Call 505 504-6830 for more info, or to participate. Slots/books are limited, so reserve a slot today!

 

 

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NEW MEXICO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HONORS MAMF WITH MEMORIAL BILL 28 IN THE STATE CAPITOL

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Phot of entry to the New Mexico State Capitol
2/25/2015
MAMF board sat up front of the House for the introduction and vote

The “Whereases” kept coming, each one more laudatory than the preceding one as the New Mexico House of Representatives Chief Clerk read House Memorial Bill 28 “recognizing the Museum of the American Military Family and Learning Center and the Importance of the American Military Family.”

HM 28 was sponsored and introduced by Representative Bill McCamley, Democrat of Las Cruces, and supported by several Members of both parties testifying in favor of this Museum which is focusing on experiences such as their own growing up with or being married to a person serving in one of the military services. Representative McCamley cited his own life in the military and the work MAMF is doing as his reasons for sponsoring the Bill. » Read more

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Some highlights from MAMF’s very busy 2014:

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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

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FAST-PACED FALL FOR MAMF

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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.

 

 

“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

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Sacrifice & Service: The American Military Family is on Exhibit in Los Alamos through January 2, 2015

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On December 4, 2014, Sacrifice & Service: The American Military Family opened at the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It was the third venue for the exhibit, which debuted in Albuquerque on Memorial Day, traveled to the Lea County Museum in October and November, and will spend December in Los Alamos.

On December 1, the exhibit was delivered by Jim Harris, Lea County Museum Director, who drove the exhibit up from Lovington . On December 3, MAMF Director Circe, and board members Joan and Ole set up the exhibit, along with Mesa Public Library personnel.

It seemed a near impossible task to have everything ready for the December 4 opening, but it came together.

 

Between the MAMF team, Katy, the library director and and Keith, from Los Alamos County, the exhibit came together mid-morning on the 4th. The Albuquerque Journal sent a photographer to take some photos to accompany an article slated to run in mid-December. » Read more

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A Salute to Our Heroes

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Man and woman saluting

On November 15, 2014, the Museum of the American Military Family, the City of Albuquerque , ChoppHearse, the Albuquerque Balloon Museum, and dozens of other organizations and groups collaborated on a “Salute to Our Heroes”. It was an amazing event.

Salute to Heros Poster

 

 

Flag line and person bearing Memorial Folded Flag outside at Salute to Heroes Veterans Day Celebration 2014
Motorcyclists in jackets entering Salute to Heroes Veterans Day Celebration 2014
Mr. & Mrs. Olson holding small flags at Salute to Heroes Veterans Day Celebration 2014

 

The event started off with a motorcade and a flag line. Museum visitors joined cadets from several JROTC and ROTC units, the Young Marines and Bataan Military Academy. Distinguished guests from the National Guard, the City of Albuquerque and Service Organizations joined the procession into the Balloon Museum, where Director Sandor Cohen welcomed them, saying,

“WE ARE TRULY HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY AS PART OF A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION THAT PAYS TRIBUTE TO OUR BELOVED VETERANS – DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDM – AND TO SUPPORT A VERY SPECIAL NEW MUSEUM IN THE ALBUQUERQUE AREA THAT NOT ONLY HONORS THE HEROES IN OUR MILITARY…BUT THAT ALSO TELLS THE STORY OF THEIR FAMILIES AND LOVED ONES, WHO EQUALLY EXEMPLIFY THAT SAME SENSE OF DUTY AND SACRIFICE AND LOVE OF COUNTRY THAT WE FIND IN THOSE WHO SERVE.”

 

As part of the program, there was a very moving flag folding ceremony followed by MAMF Director, Circe Olson Woessner accepting the flag,  and reminding the audience,

“…So when celebrating Veterans Day, we should remember all of our Veterans, by thanking them for their service, listening to their stories…welcoming them home, but we also need to remember the ones who have died without ever telling their stories, the ones who are living in poverty on the streets, the ones that have no family or are being honored by strangers. Today, we specially honor them and welcome them to our family. ” » Read more

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FOR MAMF, NO LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER

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Raising flag

By Allen Dale Olson, MAMF Secretary/Public Affairs

When the MAMF exhibit, “Sacrifice & Service: The American Military Family,” closed on August 31, it had seen 17,116 visitors since opening on May 26 in the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History. And that doesn’t include the members of the Albuquerque Museum Collaborative Council or all the elementary and middle school kids who attended summer science camps in the Nuclear Museum. There were 145 VIPs at the Opening Reception on May 30.Sacrifice & Service Poster for Nuclear Museum

 

 

But the exhibit was more than an exhibit. There were book readings by Steve Sparks, R. Sam Baty, and J. Allen Whitt. Four Poets – Caroline LeBlanc, Circe Olson Woessner, Jacqueline Murray Loring, and Karen Bradberry entertained with touching and humorous excerpts from letters and messages about family life in the military. » Read more

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8/28/2014           

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The Telling Project Albuquerque NM logo

Albuquerque Military Veterans and Family Members Perform their Stories of Service in  Telling, Albuquerque

Location: South Broadway Cultural Center

Dates / Times: September 11, 13, 19, 20 – 7pm

September 14, 21 – 2pm

Free to the Public

 

In 2014, The Telling Project w ill produce 8 original performances: Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Baltimore, MD; Albuquerque, NM; San Antonio, TX; Austin, TX; College Station, TX; and New York, NY.  More than 70 military veterans and military veterans will speak to audiences of tens of thousands around the country.

Albuquerque, NM, is the third host for The Telling Project’s 2014 season, and is co-produced by the Museum of the American Military Family, in collaboration with Working Group Theater, underwritten by the Bob Woodruff Foundation.

Cast members include individuals who served in the Navy, Army, and Air Force. Audiences will hear stories from Vietnam combatants and conscientious objectors, women who served a full career in the military, as well as reflections by family members of military personnel. From helicopters, to ships, to the jungle floor; from broadcasting live through rocket fire, to playfully clanking bombs together in warehouses; from intimate battles to come to terms with experiences a lifetime ago, to the transformations that follow; Telling, Albuquerque will speak to a diverse range of military and military family experiences.  All performers are Albuquerque residents who, wanting their communities to understand who they are and what they have undertaken over the last half-century.

Timed to coincide with the anniversary of September 11th, Telling, Albuquerque is a an opportunity to engage the Albuquerque area in an intimate, complex, and richly various conversation concerning military experience, veterans, military families, and war in a moment when the nation is contemplating these matters.

No press opening will be held, although access to rehearsals, interviews with cast and crew, and background  information on The Telling Project and Telling, Albuquerque can be arranged in advance of the performance by contacting:

 

Max Rayneard, The Telling Project

541 556 4368

Max@thetellingproject.org

http://thetellingproject.org

 

“We hear about war on the news, but we don’t hear the personal side, up-close, from those  who lived it. That’s about to change.” Kyle Taylor, Baltimore Sun.

“Go see this play.” Mike Rosenberg, Washington Post.

“The best performance of the season, hands down.”  Ben Waterhouse, Willamette Week,    Portland, OR, 2010.

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