Don Milne: "Stories Behind The Stars"

The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum

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4.6 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This week, Martha is joined by Don Milne, Founder and Director of the Stories Behind The Stars initiative aimed at telling the stories of every World War II veteran who gave their lives for their country. Don explains how this initiative grew from a hobby project to a national movement and discusses his goal to develop an app for military cemeteries that would serve as a database with names and stories of each fallen WWII veteran. Plus, Don shares some of his favorite stories uncovered through the initiative’s research. Follow Martha on Twitter: @MarthaMacCallum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	The Untold Story with Martha McCallum, exclusive interviews with top newsmakers who share their inspiring
0:38.7	stories of perseverance, positivity, and more. Now, here's Martha McCallum. My next guest has a mission
0:49.9	to share the stories of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation's freedom.
0:56.2	The Stories Behind the Stars initiative was created to shed light on more than 400,000 American heroes
1:04.5	who were killed during World War II. What started as a personal project led to a national effort for founder and director Don Milne, who now has over 700 volunteers researching and writing the stories of the fallen to ensure these men and women are never forgotten.
1:23.3	Don's next mission will be the development of a smartphone app that he says will create, quote,
1:28.9	gravesites that are more than just names on stone. Don joins me now with his untold story.
1:36.3	Don, it's great to have you with us tonight. Thank you so much for being here.
1:40.7	I'm so glad I can be here with you today, Martha.
1:43.5	So it sounds like you and I started off on a mission in a somewhat similar way, a personal story that leads you down a road and puts you on a journey to tell the stories of some of these unknown valor heroes.
1:57.0	Tell me a little bit about how you got started.
1:59.0	Well, I got started right after the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, which was in 2016.
2:06.1	I'm sure you were part of the effort, all the news coverage that people were doing stories about
2:10.8	that monumental event and you were able to interview survivors and that's great.
2:17.3	But I've always felt as a
2:18.7	World War II buff and I read a lot of books on the subject that it's great to honor these
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