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Grant will support Valley students chronicling veterans, their stories

Thunderbirds Charities, Veterans Heritage Project team up on project

Posted 2/27/24

Thunderbirds Charities awarded a $15,000 grant awarded to Veterans Heritage Project.

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Grant will support Valley students chronicling veterans, their stories

Thunderbirds Charities, Veterans Heritage Project team up on project

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Thunderbirds Charities awarded a $15,000 grant awarded to Veterans Heritage Project.

Grant money is supporting the organization’s after-school civic and character education program. Middle school and high school students learn about history, citizenship, service, and leadership by interviewing veterans and documenting their service stories, the significance and impact on their lives and careers, and resulting life lessons, a press release explains.

Students write and publish each veteran’s story in the student publication “Since You Asked,” and preserve the oral history video in the Library of Congress.

The book includes war and peacetime service stories from veterans of all eras or service branches, in addition to a selected theme for the year. The theme for the 20th anniversary is “Since You Asked XX: A Salute to Gold Star Families.”

A Gold Star Family is defined by legislation as a "parent, spouse, sibling or child of members of the Armed Forces who died as a result of their service during a period of war." The legacies of 28 Gold Star experiences are among the 244 veterans’ stories preserved this year.

Students will honor the interviewed veterans and Gold Star Families at a free community event on Sunday, April 28 at the Sheraton Downtown Phoenix, 340 N. 3rd St. The public is welcome and will have the opportunity to purchase a book, and meet veterans during a book signing.

Visit https://www.veteransheritage.org/bookreception.

A look at a book signing line at a recent event.
A look at a book signing line at a recent event.
Veteran Tim Qualters shows Elliott Nielsen his dress blues.
Veteran Tim Qualters shows Elliott Nielsen his dress blues.