Make Your WWII Fallen Story Count Toward 421,000 Total

The mission of Stories Behind the Stars is to make sure everyone of the 421,000 US WWII fallen has a story by September 2, 2025.

How do we keep track of these stories?

All of the stories are saved to Fold3 memorials, either directly to Fold3 to through Together We Served. Originally, there was no way to get an easy running count of all the stories. In 2021 Fold3 rolled out a new feature that allowed Stories Behind the Stars to be recognized as a partner. Staff at Fold3 went through all of the stories added by SBTS volunteers and tagged them with a Stories Behind the Stars token.

Fold3 has done some upgrades and we need to provide new instructions for volunteers to add the SBTS token.

Once you have installed the SBTS token on your Fold3 account, you will be able to tag all your stories with the SBTS token so they are included in the total of WWII fallen stories we have completed.

This video describes how to do this:

https://youtu.be/HoVbeSzAZLM

Email lois.healan@storiesbehindthestars.org requesting an INSTALLATION CODE

You will receive an email with the code and the instructions on how to add it to your FOLD3 profile.This installation will establish your relationship with the Stories Behind the Stars organization.