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Stories Behind the Stars Project: Stories of WWII Fallen. A GSBC Program. (online event) Online

Join us before the program for a GSBC General Meeting beginning at 1:30pm ET, where a prize drawing will be held for GSBC members only. The presentation will begin at 2:00pm ET.

Stories Behind the Stars was a non-profit initiative started in 2020. It has the ambitious goal to collect the stories of every one of the 421,000 US WWII fallen in one common database on Fold3.com, freely available to all.

To make these stories even more accessible, Stories Behind the Stars is promoting the development of a smartphone app where anyone with the app can use their smartphone camera to scan the name of any of these 421,000 fallen from a memorial or gravestone and get a link to read their stories right there.

Stories Behind the Stars involves more than 1,500 people from all 50 states and more than a dozen other countries. They have completed more than 13,000 stories, including all those from one state (Utah), all of the 2,503 D-Day fallen, and all of the 2,335 Pearl Harbor fallen. We are currently working on writing the stories of all the 7,700 US WWII fallen buried at Arlington National Cemetary.

This presentation will cover how people can participate in the Stories Behind the Stars project to create stories of WWII fallen that will be read at their grave sites and memorials for decades to come. You will learn how you can research military service for family members or any of the other US WWII fallen. Florida had more than 5,000 WWII fallen who need their stories told.

Stories Behind the Stars founder Don Milne had an interest in history that goes back to early childhood. Over the past five decades, he read at least up to a dozen more books each year that cover World War II subjects. With the 75th Anniversary of America's involvement in World War II at Pearl Harbor in 2016, he decided to honor these men by writing about one of them everyday until the 75th Anniversary of the end of the war four years later. During this time he wrote more than 1,250 stories. Circumstances developed that he started Stories Behind the Stars to get others to help write the stories of all the US WWII fallen.

Milne and his wife live in Louisville, Kentucky. They have six children and 13 1/2 grandchildren.

 

This presentation will be held online using Zoom.



The Genealogical Society of Broward County (GSBC) meets monthly
on the first Sunday of every month except when there is a holiday.

We are here to help you find your ancestors.

Visit www.gsbcfl.org for more information about GSBC.

Meetings are free and open to the public.

Date:
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Time:
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Online:
This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Audience:
  Adult     General Public  
Categories:
  Adult     Discussion / Lecture     Events  
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Event Organizer

Sarah Divine

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