That program Maggie Holtgrieve applied for was the "Normandy" Sacrifice for Freedom Albert H. Small Student and Teacher Institute," which chooses 15 students across the country to research a military member who lost his life in the Allied invasion of France.
The program, sponsored by real estate developer and philanthropist Albert Small, paid for Julia Brunson and Maggie Holtgrieve to travel to Washington, D.C., for research at the National Archives and then to France to visit the cemetery and D-Day beaches. Last summer the program was filmed by PBS.
Brunson started with a long list of Wisconsin names buried in France and was intrigued by Mlot's name.
She found out Eugen Mlot was raised in Milwaukee's southside by a poor mother who emigrated from Poland.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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