Retired Col. W. G. ‘Bill’ Willis was inducted into the Indiana Military Veterans Hall of Fame at the former Fort Ben Harrison on November 5, 2021.  At right is retired Army Chaplain, Col. Sherman Reed, Army Reserve Ambassador Emeritus, who nominated Willis. Bill was commended for his 22 years as founder and state chair of an annual military seminar featuring senior military and defense officials, members of Congress, military authors, and WWII veterans.  In 2000, he founded Liberty Day Indiana, a program providing U.S. Constitution programs for 8th and 11th graders. He continues to serve as state chair and president of the French Lick-West Baden Lions Club and as president of the Orange County Gideons.    

Retired Maj. Gen. Margaret ‘Peggy’ Wilmoth, Ph.D., AWCF Board of Trustees, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Nursing's Exec. Vice Dean and Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs, was elected by her American Academy of Nursing peers to serve a three-year term on the Academy's Fellow Selection Committee. With more than 2,700 Fellows, the Academy represents nursing’s most accomplished leaders in policy, research, administration, practice, and academia. Wilmoth will serve as the school’s interim Dean from January 1, 2022 until a new dean is appointed. She has 40 years of experience in higher education and was the first nurse and female Deputy Surgeon General for the Army Reserve.

Special thank you to retired U.S. Army Col. Ruth B. Collins, President and CEO of the Army War College Foundation for sharing the images and write up.