The following individuals have volunteered to direct our Pearl Harbor Fallen Project: Allison Albert of Rhode Island Coby Crump of Utah...

Teachers from Elementary through College are invited to attend the Sixth Annual Teachers Conference (Virtual) presented by the Friends of...

Linda Simpson of Oklahoma has accepted the offer to be our Flight Guidance Lead. You may recognize the name because Linda is also our...

While saving stories to Fold3 as described in our Boot Camp is still an option for state level projects and the Arlington National...

First some background on the VPN setup. Ancestry.com supports the efforts of Stories Behind the Stars and wants to grant our volunteers...

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To borrow a comparison to the space program, the Utah pilot (Stories Behind the Stars 1.0) was like the Mercury program that put a man in...

Having more, and more, and more people join this project is a great thing, but it doesn’t come with more hours in the day to welcome them...

Last year I was able to review the first story of every new volunteer to give them some best practices pointers. As the project grew, I...

Updated July 12, 2022 There is no accurate, official list of the World War II fallen. The mission of Stories Behind the Stars is to...

The national effort to tell the stories of all 2,502 Americans who died on D-Day made the front page news in Columbus Ohio. Thanks to the...

The Tulsa World did a Memorial Day story about Linda Simpson's efforts to tell the stories of the 6,500 Oklahoma WWII fallen. She has...

Gary Shapiro of KUSA 9News NBC did a Memorial Day news story about the efforts of Coloradans to tell the stories of more than 3,500...

The nationally broadcasted Extreme Genes radio show was one of the first shows, in July 2020, to tell people about a national volunteer...

Bob Fuerst has been writing stories of the WWII fallen since 2018. He has a goal of seeing that everyone of the 7,000+ Alabama WWII...

Senator Mitt Romney did a Memorial Day Op-Ed piece in The Hill about the Stories Behind the Stars project accomplishment of writing a...

More than 120 volunteers from nearly three dozen states, plus France and England, have written stories for each of the 2,502 US WWII...

Bob Joyce from Venice, Florida was profiled by the Herald-Tribune about his participation in Stories Behind the Stars....

Stories Behind the Stars' ETO Special Projects Director Scott Rayl was interviewed by Greg McQuade, WTRV CBS 6 in Richmond Virginia....

The 2,502 Americans, who died in Normandy on June 6, 1944, were not able to participate in a celebratory parade thanking them. More than...