Honoring Our Veterans

Inspiring Tales and Veteran's Stories

Till We Meet Again - Dan Salters Guideposts
More Than Coincidence - Becky Alexander Guideposts
The Healing Wall - Duery Felton Guideposts
The Universal Language - Jerry Ewen Chicken Soup For The Veteren's Soul
Wartime Letter from Captain Bellenden S. Hutcheson Veterans Affairs Canada
Clement Turpin - This decorated WWII vetern tells his story. Awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster as well as five battle stars for Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe.
S.O.E. - Canadian Heroes in Action Veterans Affairs Canada
The Boys of Iwo Jima - Michael T. Powers Inspiring Stories
Walter Morris - WWII Veterans History Project (Audio Interview)
Patricia M. Seawalt - Desert Storm Veterans History Project
Clark Simmons, Survivor, USS Utah - Military.com
Veterns Day Tribute - Uplifting Jokes and Stuff
Closing the door for Frank... Jack Stoddard War Stories
Impossible Becomes Possible - John Williams GIF documentary on the WWII battles of Monte Cassino
'Seeds of Hope' - William O. Sabel Memories of War
Harry Benally - Navajo Code Talker
The Heroic Faith of Henry Erwin, Medal of Honor Recipient Danny Murphy LSFM Living History Group
Deliverance! It Has Come! - Herman Knight Beaber WWII Stories In Their Own Words
Yorlik's Messerschmitt Jerry Kilroy aka Yorlik WWII's Kilroy Was Here
A Chaplain Remembers Vietnam - Sam Hopkins (Excerp from the book)
My First Day In Nam - Guy Jones from Midnight Angel
The Soldiers Night Before Christmas - Major Bruce W. Lovely Mr. Mom
Pearl Harbor Reflections - Gordon "Gus" Gustafson So Help Me God Project
From The Other Side - Patrick Camunes War Stories
Former Enemies - Peter Baldwin Panagore Belief Net
Boot Camp - John William Crockett Soldier Story
The Purple Heart - Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. HeartTouchers

Memorial Websites

Audie Leon Murphy - Most decorated combat veteran of WWII
The Vietnam Experience - Sharing the emotional and spiritual experiences of the Vietnam War through poetry, stories, and photos
by combat veterans.
The Virtual Wall - containing personal remembrances of letters, photographs, poetry, and citations honoring those women and men named on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
Veterns History Project - The stories of veterans, their families, and their experiences. a treasure trove of individual feelings and personal recollections.
A Veteran's Story is a part of Military.com's Living History Project, which is committed to telling the history of our men and women in uniform by preserving their own stories and photos.
World War II Chronicles - World War II Veterans Committee
War Stories - Over 500 original stories by those who served in Vietnam
BuffaloSoldiers.net The Definitive Source for Information on America's Unsung Heroes
Memories of War - Devoted to World War II Veterans
Navajo Code Talker Association Dedicated to...all Navajo men and women who have stepped forth and gallantly fought in all of the U.S. great wars.
D-Day, Normandy and Beyond - Eye witness memories keeping the memory alive of the sacrifice these brave men and women made when liberating Europe.
World War II Stories In Their Own Words (Note: This site is a bit balky to navigate, but worth the aggrivation)
WWII's Kilroy Was Here Unknown Stories, Forgotten Places
Echos of War The real history of a war is the sum total of the individual personal experiences of the people whose lives are touched.
Viper's Vietnam Veterns Page
Midnight Angel - Several collections of veteran's stories keyed to the month of November for 2001, 2002 and 2003
Center for Life Stories Preservation - Military History
Soldier Story - a site dedicated to telling the soldier's story.
World War II Heros - A Multi-Media Oral History of World War II
National World War II Memorial - The offical website of the new World War II Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC, May 29, 2004
Virtural World War II Museum - Consisting of many exhibits from the Saipan Historical Society, the Park grounds, and other World War II historical sites in the Northern Mariana Islands.