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TellTale: Dakota Folklife and Stories

Veterans: Raydene Winnegge 1

By Bill Thomas

Published October 20, 2021 at 3:50 PM CDT

Raydene Winnegge, I’m From the Queen Mary, WWII

Raydene Winnegge, I’m From the Queen Mary, WWII War Bride, Lakota, ND (Episode 1 of 2): Raydene reminisces about meeting her husband, a U.S. soldier, during World War II in England and coming to America on the Queen Mary. This audio is part of a special thread within the TellTale series that honors veterans and military service. It features memories sparked by the creation of an auto-biographical poem used in the exhibit Poetic Portraits: The Lives of Veterans.

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