Phillips County Museum News for November 2, 2016

History is an amazing thing. Each generation creates their individual history yet if we look back we sometimes find a time in history that is similar to events that this generation feels is uniquely ours. The book “Popular to Papua” is an example of this. The story is set during World War II. It is a story of Montana National Guard’s 163rd Infantry Regiment and how they took part in World War II. (Did you think that Desert Storm was the first time a National Guard Unit was called up?) It’s a story of young men that joined the guard to earn the $1.00 a day which was “big mone...