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Georgia Woman Has Written 250 Stories of WWII Fallen
The Smoke Signals News recently ran a story about Stories Behind the Stars volunteer Rona Simmons who has written 250 stories of the...
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Don Milne
Mar 19, 20221 min read
Remembering all the American servicewomen killed in World War II
For Women's History Month we are highlighting Stories Behind the Stars volunteer Lea Schneider who is uncovering some fascinating stories...
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Don Milne
Mar 18, 20222 min read
Honoring Heroes or Politicians?
Will the Prescott Arizona Centennial Center be renamed for a local World War II hero or a local politician? Prescott Arizona resident...
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Don Milne
Mar 17, 20222 min read
900 Arlington Stories So Far - Help Needed With Remaining
Beginning in January of this year a growing group of volunteers have been writing stories about WWII fallen buried at Arlington National...
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Don Milne
Mar 16, 20221 min read
RootsTech Highlights Project To Remember World War II Fallen
The most popular online family history conference in the world attracted more than a million participants during its three days of...
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Don Milne
Mar 14, 20221 min read
Help Wanted Leading Something Historic
Stories Behind the Stars has the audacious mission of finding volunteers to tell the stories of all 421,000 US WWII fallen. In order to...
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Don Milne
Jan 3, 20221 min read
Join 300 Volunteers in Historic Arlington National Cemetery Project
Beginning this week the non profit initiative Stories Behind the Stars is organizing volunteers to write the stories of everyone of the...
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Don Milne
Dec 11, 20211 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Dec 9, 20211 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Dec 8, 20211 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Dec 3, 20215 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Dec 3, 20211 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Nov 30, 20212 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Nov 28, 20217 min read
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...
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Don Milne
Nov 24, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20211 min read
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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