Preserve. Honor. Educate.
- Do you have a story to tell about your combat experiences?
- Would you like the opportunity to ensure that your story is remembered long after you’re gone?
- Would you like a free video DVD of your interview for your family?
The Witness to War Foundation – www.WitnesstoWar.org – offers you that opportunity. Founded in 2002 by Atlanta entrepreneur Tom Beaty, Witness to War has interviewed over 1,300 veterans and combat theater civilians. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the oral histories of combat veterans. It was founded in an attempt to answer the unanswerable: What was it like to be there?
Bob Patrick, Director, Veterans History Project, Library of Congress; Tom Beaty, Founder, Witness to War Foundation; and Emily Carley, Director, Witness to War Foundation
Here’s how it works. A Witness to War Foundation representative interviews you as you tell your story, and the interview is recorded on video. Afterwards, you receive three DVD copies of your own full-length oral history to keep, and to pass on to your children and grandchildren. There is no cost whatsoever to you. Your interview may also be edited and posted on the Witness to War website, www.WitnesstoWar.org. And ultimately, if you wish, your oral history can be donated to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project and other non-profit historical preservation organizations.
If you are a combat veteran of any U.S. war from World War II to Afghanistan and would like to tell your story and see that it’s remembered, please let us know:
Combat Veterans from the Bay Area:
The Witness to War Foundation will be sending an interview/video team to San Francisco in November or December for two days of interviews. The exact dates have not yet been determined, but will be announced once they have confirmed a minimum of ten veterans seeking to be interviewed. The Korean War Memorial Foundation has offered to assist them in identifying interested parties.
If you are a combat veteran and would like to be interviewed in the San Francisco Bay Area, please contact:
Eleanor Zapanta
Korean War Memorial Foundation
info@kwmf.org
(415) 817-1858
www.kwmf.org
Combat Veterans from Elsewhere in the U.S:
If you are from outside the Bay Area, please contact:
Emily Carley
Director, Witness to War Foundation
emily@witnesstowar.org
770 481 3018
www.WitnesstoWar.org