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Popular Genealogy TV YouTube Channel Covers Stories Behind the Stars
The popular genealogy YouTube channel Genealogy TV covered the Stories Behind the Stars project on their December 10, 2021 live show. The...

Don Milne
Dec 11, 20211 min read
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USU grad develops app for World War II fallen soldiers nonprofit
The Herald Journal in Logan, Utah, the main newspaper in Cache Valley, has written an article about the android smartphone app Esther...

Don Milne
Dec 9, 20211 min read
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ABC 4 - Volunteers Work to Honor Every Single Pearl Harbor Fallen
ABC News 4 in Salt Lake City, Utah did a story about Stories Behind the Stars for Pearl Harbor Day. https://www.abc4.com/news/beyond-just...

Don Milne
Dec 8, 20211 min read
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80th Anniversary Stories of Pearl Harbor Fallen - 2,335 of Them
Ancestry.com's Fold3 HQ blog is sharing some of the stories of the Pearl Harbor fallen written by the volunteers from Stories Behind the...

Don Milne
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Meet the writers who told the Pearl Harbor fallen stories
More than 100 volunteers helped with the first ever project to write stories of each of the 2,335 Pearl Harbor fallen. Below, a few of...

Don Milne
Dec 3, 20215 min read
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December 8 Zoom Meeting to Commemorate Completion of Pearl Harbor Fallen Project
You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: Wednesday, Dec 8, 2021, 09:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) / 06:00 PM Pacific Time We will...

Don Milne
Dec 3, 20211 min read
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Thanks for the $1 million donation
Stories Behind the Stars relies on contributions to succeed. These contributions overwhelmingly are not gifts of money, but gifts of time...

Don Milne
Nov 30, 20212 min read
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Every Pearl Harbor fallen has a story - 2,341 of them
The 2,341 Americans in military service, who died due to the December 7, 1941 Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, have been...

Don Milne
Nov 28, 20217 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 24, 20212 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 15, 20212 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 13, 20211 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 12, 20212 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 11, 20211 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Nov 6, 20211 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Oct 28, 20211 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Oct 27, 20212 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Oct 18, 20213 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Oct 18, 20212 min read
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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...

Don Milne
Oct 17, 20211 min read
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