The generation that lived World War II is nearly gone — but their stories don't have to go with them. Share the story your father, grandmother, or great-uncle told you, and we'll bring it to life.
Share Your Family's StoryOf the 16.4 million who served, less than one in five hundred is still with us. Every story preserved now is a story saved forever.
It began with one story — told across a kitchen table.
This project began with a story my father told me about something that happened to him during the Second World War. It wasn't D-Day or Pearl Harbor. It wasn't the kind of story that makes it into the history books. It was his story — and if he hadn't told it to me, it would have vanished when he did.
That story became our first film. And it made us realize something: every family has one. A letter in a shoebox. A photograph nobody can quite explain. A story granddad only told once. Those are the stories history forgets — and the ones we exist to tell.
We take the stories families share with us and retell them visually, so the world can see what your loved one lived. Their generation is leaving us. Their stories remain.
— James Sears, Founder
Son of PFC James W. Sears, Wire & Telephone Man,
773rd Field Artillery Battalion, First U.S. Army — Bronze Star Medal, France & Germany, 1944
Sixteen million served. Every one of them carried a story home — or didn't come home to tell it.
Coming ashore at Normandy, June 1944
USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Tuskegee Airmen, 1942–43
Photographs: U.S. National Archives · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Three simple steps to preserve a story forever.
Write it in your own words — as your veteran told it, or as your family remembers it. It doesn't need to be polished. It needs to be true to them.
A photograph, a letter, a medal, a telegram — anything that helps us see the person behind the story. Optional, but it makes the telling richer.
Stories we tell are published in our written archive here on the site, and selected stories become visual films on our channel — always credited to your family, honoring your veteran. We'll contact you before anything is published.
Every submission is read by a real person. Every story matters.
We've received your submission, and a real person will read every word of it.
If we select this story to be told on the channel, we'll reach out to you first at the email you provided.
You've just done something their generation would be proud of.