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Article: Seeing war as it happens Veterans museum opens Iraq, Afghanistan exhibits
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 5, 2009
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Madison -- Joe Naylor is not a pack rat, but he kept a few things
from his 2003-'04 tour in Iraq -- a medical pouch, shears he used to
cut wounded soldiers' uniforms, stethoscope, hand-held electronic
"Jeopardy!" game that helped pass the time.
A medic in the Army's 1st Infantry Division, Naylor packed the
gear in his duffel bag when he left Fallujah never dreaming his
stuff would someday end up in a museum exhibit.
"I remember going to the museum in Milwaukee when I was a kid,
and I was fascinated by it. I visited the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
three, four years ago. I never really ever thought I would be tied
in to the museum in the future," said Naylor, 29, who grew up in
Waupaca.
Naylor ...