Don Milne
President Roosevelt's Last Peacetime Thanksgiving Day Proclamation
Eighty years ago this week, President Franklin Roosevelt issued what would be his last peacetime Thanksgiving Day proclamation. A...
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Don Milne
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
More Volunteers Invited to Help with Historic Pearl Harbor Fallen Project
Our more than 100 Pearl Harbor Fallen Project volunteers are doing a fantastic job at writing stories about our Pearl Harbor fallen. As...
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Don Milne
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
Popular Genealogy YouTube Channel Episode on Stories Behind the Stars
Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems YouTube channel did its Veterans Day episode about the Stories Behind the Stars project. Here is the...
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Don Milne
- Nov 12, 2021
- 2 min
Help Identify the WWII Fallen in Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery has given us a list of 13,100 individuals who died from 1941 through January 1946. We need help to narrow...
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Don Milne
- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
DC Fox Station Covers Volunteer Project to Remember Unknown Soldiers
Fox 5 DC reporter Stephanie Ramirez covered the Stories Behind the Stars project to write a story about everyone of the US WWII fallen...
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Don Milne
- Nov 11, 2021
- 1 min
CBS 8 News - Volunteers in San Diego Help Remember WWII Fallen
CBS 8 News reporter Abbie Alford of San Diego did this news story for Veterans Day 2021. Stories Behind the Stars: Volunteers in San...
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Don Milne
- Nov 6, 2021
- 1 min
Project to remember every WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetery makes local news
The largest newspaper in Alexandria Virginia, The Zebra, published a nice story about the launch of the Stories Behind the Stars...
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Don Milne
- Oct 28, 2021
- 1 min
A Fascinating Preview of The Arlington National Cemetery WWII Fallen Project
As mentioned in a previous post "Help tell the stories for each of the 7,700 WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetery" our next...
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Don Milne
- Oct 27, 2021
- 2 min
Useful Tips to Make Your TWS Pearl Harbor Profiles Even Better
This checklist was created by Jackie Menasco to assist our editors working on USS Arizona Mall Memorial names. Those working on names...
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Don Milne
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
Help tell the stories for each of the 7,700 WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetery
This Veterans Day Stories Behind the Stars will be launching our next group project to tell the stories of all US World War II fallen...
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Don Milne
- Oct 18, 2021
- 2 min
50 Days to record 1,000 Pearl Harbor fallen stories
In July, the first month of our project, we had less than 40 volunteers writing stories of the Pearl Harbor fallen with 2,335 names to...
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Don Milne
- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
Together We Served Zoom training 11/7 or 12/5 or 1/2
The staff at Together We Served wants to make sure that Stories Behind the Stars volunteers are able to make full use of all the great...
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Don Milne
- Oct 17, 2021
- 1 min
Two awards that don't apply to Pearl Harbor fallen
First, the Together We Served staff has noticed that the "Gold Star Lapel Pin" is showing up as an unofficial badge. This is not correct,...
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Don Milne
- Oct 16, 2021
- 1 min
Looking for Veterans Remembering WWII Fallen Servicemen
According to a survey of our volunteers, 25% of them or their partner are serving or have served in the Armed Forces. For this Veterans...
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Don Milne
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min
Tennessee newspaper covers woman who is telling the stories of servicewomen killed in WWII
Stories Behind the Stars volunteer Lea Schneider was profile in the Nashville Tennessean today. You can read the full story at the link...
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Don Milne
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
Adding USS Arizona Mall Memorial Chapter Name to TWS Profiles
In order to recognize all of the stories contributed to the Stories Behind the Stars Pearl Harbor Fallen Project by the USS Arizona Mall...
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Don Milne
- Sep 23, 2021
- 1 min
Together We Served Zoom training 10/6 or 10/7
The staff at Together We Served wants to make sure that Stories Behind the Stars volunteers are able to make full use of all the great...
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Don Milne
- Sep 15, 2021
- 1 min
Learn about WWII fallen project at Point of the Spear podcast
Stories Behind the Stars founder Don Milne was interviewed for the new Point of the Spear with Robert Child podcast. Be sure to...
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Don Milne
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
48 months to tell the remaining 408,000 WWII fallen stories
Over the past 15 months a group of what started at a few dozen and now exceeds 1,400 people have written more than 13,000 stories of the...
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Don Milne
- Aug 30, 2021
- 1 min
Enhancing Your WWII Fallen Photos
Updated January 24, 2022 Attention all World War II story writers: As you research and save stories of the fallen, you may be using a...
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