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A selection of "digital stories" produced by youth volunteers and WWII veterans who participated in the award winning Stories of Service program of the nonprofit Digital Clubhouse Network from 1998 to 2010.  
 
 
 
 
 
CNN 2000 Digital Clubhouse Network Stories of Service project 
 
 
THE STORIES 
 
 
The following "digital stories" were produced by youth, veterans, community volunteers and family members who used donated computer equipment and software to document the personal memories of those who served in uniform during WWII and those who supported them on the Home Front.  More than 1000 short vidoes (average length 5 - 7 minutes) were produced between 1998 and 2009.
 
The Stories of Service program received widespread media attention and several awards, including three medals from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in recognition of its "visionary use of information technology to effect positive educational, poitical and economic change in society."   
 
 
 
"Ordinary Heroes"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Battle Babies" by Howard Bjerke
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"Go For Broke" by Lawson Sakai
 
  
 
Flying With Neeta by Stanley Harris
 
 
 
 
 
 
Medic On A Mountain by Dr. Harold Cole 
 
 
 
 
A Note From My Mother by "Doc" Near 
 
 
  
Jumping Into the Fight by Don Irving
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Banality of Evil by Dave Carter
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Windows For Remy by John Gawinoswki
 
 
 
 
Don't Fence Me In by Rusty Lewis
 
  
 
Thelda the Riveter by Thelda Koche
 
 
  
 
Bloody Tarawa by Paul D. Martini
 
 
 
 
A Love Story by Rose Lesslie
 
 
 
 
Yangkai Tigers by Carl T. Combs
 
 
 
 
We Did What Had To Be Done by Edith Watters
 
 
 
 
Typhoon Kathleen (NA)
 
My Glide for Life by John Buecher
 
 
  
 
Man With A Code of Honor by Laura Giblin Brickman
 
 
 
 
 
 
Foxhole Buddies by Ted Intravia
 
 
 
 
Black Gang by Henry Griffoul
 
 
 
 
Battle of Mortain by Angel Garcia
 
 
 
 
Appreciate!!! by Ed Vincent
 
 
 
 
Unfit To Be A Tailor by Carl Heintze
 
 
 
 
Navy Brothers by Peter Nevarez
 
 
 
 
Luck of the Irish by Patrick Vasquez
 
 
 
Indamaru by Adolfo Celaya 
 
 
 
 
Cisco Kid Goes to War by Valentine Pena
 
 
 
 
By the Grace of God by Pat Robles
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Battle for Verdenne by Paul Ferdinandsen
 
 
 
 
Over the Hump by Ed Silverman
 
 
 
 
60 Days In Combat by Dean P. Joy
 
 
 
 
 
We Also Served by Norm Schwartzberg
 
 
 
 
 
Zero Niner Zero by John Young
 
 
 
 
The Rescuer by Lois Campbell
 
 
 
 
 
Serving My Country by Laura Peterson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Remembering a Hero by Marilyn Teel
 
 
 
 
Unrecognized Defender by Fred Batulan
 
 
 
 
Mom and the Blitz by Valerie Millar
 
 
 
 
Stalag Luft III by Harold Schauer
 
 
 
 
 
Below Decks In Pearl Harbor by Charles Merdinger