Don Milne
Using VPN to get free access to Ancestry, Newspapers, and Premium Fold3
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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Don Milne
Jun 7, 20211 min read
10 steps to remember all 400,000+ US WWII fallen
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Don Milne
Jun 7, 20214 min read
Please join Mission Control for our Moon shot
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...
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Don Milne
Jun 7, 20211 min read
Help Wanted - Our First Responder
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...
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Don Milne
Jun 7, 20213 min read
Help Wanted to Help New Writers
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...
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Don Milne
Jun 7, 20212 min read
These state need your help to write stories
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...
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Don Milne
Jun 6, 20211 min read
Front Page News: Quest to compile stories of all Americans killed on D-Day
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...
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Don Milne
May 31, 20211 min read
Help tell the stories of all 6,500 Oklahoma WWII fallen
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...
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Don Milne
May 31, 20211 min read
Help tell the stories of all 3,500 Colorado WWII fallen
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...
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Don Milne
May 31, 20211 min read
Volunteers are telling the stories of all 400,000+ US WWII fallen
The nationally broadcasted Extreme Genes radio show was one of the first shows, in July 2020, to tell people about a national volunteer...
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Don Milne
May 31, 20211 min read
Help tell the stories of 7,000 Alabama WWII casualties
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...
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Don Milne
May 31, 20211 min read
Every WWII fallen from this state has a story
Senator Mitt Romney did a Memorial Day Op-Ed piece in The Hill about the Stories Behind the Stars project accomplishment of writing a...
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Don Milne
May 30, 20218 min read
Meet the writers who told the D-Day fallen stories
More than 120 volunteers from nearly three dozen states, plus France and England, have written stories for each of the 2,502 US WWII...
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Don Milne
May 30, 20211 min read
Florida man writes 400 stories of WWII fallen
Bob Joyce from Venice, Florida was profiled by the Herald-Tribune about his participation in Stories Behind the Stars....
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Don Milne
May 29, 20211 min read
WTRV CBS 6 - Group works to immortalize stories of soldiers who died in WWII
Stories Behind the Stars' ETO Special Projects Director Scott Rayl was interviewed by Greg McQuade, WTRV CBS 6 in Richmond Virginia....
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Don Milne
May 29, 20217 min read
Every D-Day fallen has a story - 2,502 of them
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...
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Don Milne
May 17, 20211 min read
Amazing Stories of Women WWII Fallen
Lea Schneider from Tennessee has write more than 70 stories about American women who died while servicing their country in World War II....
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Don Milne
Apr 21, 20211 min read
Video: Telling the Stories of the All 400,000+ US World War II Fallen
This half-an-hour presentation explains what this project to tell the stories of all the 400,000+ US World War II fallen is all about....
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Don Milne
Apr 20, 20212 min read
Episodes Update: Stories Behind the Stars Podcast
Here are three more great-to-listen-to podcasts. March 22 - Farmers, Truck Drivers, Everyday People Did Amazing Things Researcher Bob...
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Don Milne
Apr 12, 20211 min read
Prime National Audience to Learn of Stories Behind the Stars
The Friends of the National World War II Memorial has long been the organization that has managed education and commemoration efforts for...
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