Featured Military Association: Stories Behind The Stars
It's time to tell the stories of the 2,355 Pearl Harbor fallen.
Can you help?
Our goal is to have all these stories done in time for the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor this December 7, 2021.
To join this project you need to do four things:
1/ Email sbts@togetherweserved.com to get your free Together We Served membership. You will need this to save your Pearl Harbor fallen stories and use the TWS Forums to communicate with the other volunteers.
2/ Sign up for the free STAR Corps Boot Camp 2.0 where you will learn how to save stories on Together We Served.
3/ Sign up for the free Pearl Harbor Research Aids course where you will find tips and aids to use specifically for the Pearl Harbor Fallen Project.
4/ Let me know when you are ready to start writing stories and I will get you in touch with our Pearl Harbor Fallen Project directors Allison Albert, Coby Crump, and Jackie Menasco. They will get you matched up with some names that need stories. Just email me at don@storiesbehindthestars.org.
For both our Utah pilot project and the D-Day fallen project we had more than a hundred volunteers participating. I hope to see that many volunteers or more for the Pearl Harbor Fallen Project. If we get 120 volunteers, we need to average one story a week per volunteer to get done. Of course, some of you will do many more than this, which is great. It is also okay to join this project and just write a few stories.
When the stories are done, they will be visible at gravesites or memorials using the upcoming smartphone app. This short video gives you a preview of what it will look like. Don't you think it will be great to start using this for the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor? We need your help to make it happen by having all the Pearl Harbor stories completed.
I very much appreciate your interest in assisting with this massive undertaking. Our goal is to have all 400,000+ stories done by September 2, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. To do that we are going to need 2,000 people averaging one story a week, so invite others to get on board! Please share this document here with others who may be interested in learning more.
Our Stories Behind the Stars podcast is still moving up the charts. This is where we interview our volunteers about the stories they have written and also share some great stories of the World War II fallen. Listening to this program can get you familiar with what to expect if you join this project. We may even interview you down the road! You can download it on all popular podcast platforms. Our latest episode covers the story of a fallen hero and the letter he left for his unborn son. It's powerful.
If you haven’t kept up with all the great news exposure this project is getting, you can find that here.
Don Milne, Founder, and Director
don@storiesbehindthestars.org
Stories Behind the Stars