Operation: Soldier Story

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Preserve your story with Operation: Soldier Story!

Project Goal: Collect oral histories from veterans and service members across United Way of Northeastern Minnesota's service area to encourage healing and build community.

This project will also support the efforts of the St. Louis County Historical Society (SLCHS)'s Veterans Memorial Hall, and materials will be made available to local educators as permission allows.

Project Plan: United Way of Northeastern Minnesota has assembled a team of local volunteers who will be trained to collect the histories of veterans/service members from the Iron Range, Koochiching County, and Lake of the Woods County.

Veterans/service members interviewed will be given the option to keep their history private; share publicly after a set period of time; share with the SLCHS archive, a national archive, and local archive; and/or have parts of their story used for a potential book project. 

Interested? Fill out a short form online, and someone from United Way of Northeastern Minnesota will be in touch when it's time to begin scheduling interviews! (To have a paper form mailed to you, please call 218-254-3329.)

Operation: Soldier Story is an oral history project organized through United Way of Northeastern Minnesota's United for Veterans program.