LAUNCH OF HOMAGE SITE TO FRAME SERVICE AND SACRIFICE PAST AND PRESENT HOMAGE TO THE FALLEN 66 (F66) is a web based social media action campaign to create awareness and a call to action for all who are drawn to the site. FE66 will present a social registry database, and narrative of the men and women who have given all for their country. The first chapter will focus on a dwindling speaker bureau of Documented Tuskegee Airmen (DOTA’s) to offer living history case studies for diversity training workshops and forums to the site. F66 will use the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) http://www.abmc.gov/home.php to establish a statement of purpose in providing vetted detailed data and narrative for the Fallen Eagles 66 that is missing in the current ABMC database. The sacrifice of more than 218,000 U.S. servicemen and women is memorialized at locations in Europe. Nearly 125,000 American war dead are buried at ABMC cemeteries, with an additional 94,000 individuals commemorated on Tablets of the Missing. F66 will partner with government agencies in distributing desired messages in the areas of diversity-‐inclusion, engagement, and outreach via their respective diversity programs. FE66 will also engage private and public organizations/companies who are trying to connect and celebrate the theme of “Service and Sacrifice” by people of color and gender. F66 will feature a social media forum that will provide a multi-‐platform experience featuring documentary films, licensed excerpts of theatrical releases, original cable programming, a news blog, and website for service members, families and civilians associated who have been personally impacted by “ Service and Sacrifice” past and present. F66 will give the audience an interactive experience by creating a community that can screen the content together and participate in a live-‐moderated panel discussion (town-‐hall) that result in producing user-‐generated content for the site. As an important part of the FE66 programming mix we will spotlight obscure heroes of color and gender to inspire and entertain, as well as provide research material that previously has not been catalogued. The first installment of F66 will deliver a fully immersive database of the Tuskegee Airmen Experience that will accession the men and women’s service, while creating a detailed registry of
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