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Local Man Encourages Efforts to Help Save Milwaukee Soldier's Home
In an interview about the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, Port's Howard Hinterthuer shares his story for supporting the restoration of this national "treasure."
A Port Washington man hopes others will join the cause of supporting the restoration of the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, a place that he calls a "treasure."
Port's Howard Hinterthuer, Communications Coordinator/Editor at the Center for Veteran Issues, appears on YouTube in a video sharing his story and feelings about the Soldiers Home, a historic landmark originally offered as a space for recuperating veterans that is now in need of restoration.
"I've been working with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Milwaukee Preservation Alliance, as a veteran, to try to save the Soldiers Home and rehabilitate it and put it back to ... its originally intended use," Hinterthuer said in the video.
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Hinterthuer works with soldiers at the Center for Veterans Issues to help those dealing with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, depression and "all those other things that affect the emotional and spiritual lives" after soldiers return from combat.
The Soldiers Home historic district was added to an endangered list in 2011, "with several of the majestic, post-Civil War era buildings in imminent danger of collapse," according to a JSOnline.com article.
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