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November 1, 2014
Organization Finds a Way to Getting Veterans to Tell Their Win t! Stories s e Thank New England t n ner of the MVeterans o C r Personal Historian To Share other of the YeaLocal
How-To’s of Veterans’ Oral History Project By Judith Dorato O’Gara No one understands the true stories of war better than a veteran. That’s what makes the Library of Congress’ Veterans Oral History Project so valuable. Veterans are recorded telling their individual stories, before these stories are lost.
Shown is veteran Albert Goodrow, of Franklin, with his son, Fr. David Goodrow, of Millis. Goodrow is one of 1,093 New England veterans who have been flown, free of charge thanks to Honor Flight New England, to Washington, D. C. to see its war memorials
By J.D. O’Gara Franklin resident Albert Goodrow was a pharmacist mate in the Navy during World War II. He’s also a veteran of the Korean War,
and this year, accompanied by his son, Fr. David Goodrow, of Millis, he got the chance to fly to Washington, D.C. to see “his” memorials. Thanks to Honor Flight New England,
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Locally, in Bellingham, Marjorie Turner Hollman, a personal historian and writer, has been working to record oral histories of veterans who have a tie to Bellingham and Mendon. Hollman will be presenting War and Peace: Veteran’s Stories in Their Own Words, on Saturday, November 1 from 2-4 p.m. at the Bellingham Public Library, 100 Blackstone Street. “I’m a personal historian, chapter coordinator for my chapter of the International Association of Personal Historians, and my colleagues and I do this as part of
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their giving back to the community. Working with veterans and collecting their stories, we are saying ‘Thank you’ to military veterans and those who have served on the home front,” says Turner Hollman, a Bellingham resident, who has so far recorded the stories of twelve area veterans in the Bellingham/Mendon Veteran’s Oral History Project. “This is an effort to gather all veterans’ stories as best we can and get them either in book or recorded form and submit them to the national archives,” she says, explaining that she’s recruited volunteers to help. “The hardest thing is to persuade veterans to talk to you,” says Turner-Hollman. One area veteran who did talk with Marjorie is Franklin’s Matt Foley.
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