Dr. Van Roger Tibbetts served as a dentist in the U.S. Navy from 1957-1981. Dr. Tibbetts served aboard the USS Bennington and the USS Kearsarge as well as serving in Da Nang, Vietnam.
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Happy 100th Birthday to Frazer Dougherty! Frazer joined the National Guard in the summer of 1940. When World War II was declared, Frazer transferred to the Army Air Corps where he was trained as a pilot and served in the 345th Bomb Group as First Pilot and survived sixty-three missions.
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Jemille R. Charlton is currently a Technical Sergeant serving in the U.S. Air Force at the 106th Rescue Wing. Jemille has served in Afghanistan as well as being deployed state side supporting rescue missions during such emergencies as Hurricane Harvey.
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John J. Kremm enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1972 and served for 6 years in the Seabees as well as the Navy Seals.
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Honoring Black History Month. Lt. Lee A. Hayes (1922-2013) was a member of the legendary all-black Tuskegee Airmen and trained as a B-25 Mitchell bomber pilot with the 477th Bombardment Group. During their service, the pilots faced racism both from inside and outside the military, which was racially segregated at the time.
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John served in the US Navy from 1957-60. This interview was recorded by Bob Beres and is about John's experiences while in Navy.
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Heath Calhoun is double-leg amputee due to injuries received in the Iraq War who competed at the 2010 & 2014 Paralympics. We would like to congratulate all the athletes of the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
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Dan Kelly grew up in Southampton, NY and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1999. After the attacks of September 11th Dan was deployed in support of both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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Joseph Giannini served with the US Marines in Vietnam from 1967-68. Joesph grew up in Long Island, New York, graduated from Hofstra University and served with the First Battalion, Third Marines. He is retired from his criminal law practice of more than 40 years.
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Happy 97th Birthday to WWII Army Veteran Martin Sylvester. Martin is the first veteran Nick Kraus and Matt Hindra recoded for USA Warrior Stories and when we finished our interview and asked Martin if there was anything he wanted to add, Martin said "Did I tell you about the time I was put in front of a firing squad?" We learned a valuable lesson that day, never stop recording!
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In 2011 Nick Kraus & Matt Hindra, the founders of USA Warrior Stories, traveled with and filmed a group of injured U.S. and British service men and women on a visit to the American Cemetery and Memorial in Normandy. This project was sponsored by Wounded Warrior Project and BLESMA, the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association.
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Watch our Feature Film Welcome To Soldier Ride, the fist documentary produced and distributed by USA Warrior Stories. Also available on Amazon Prime Video. LINK HERE
This film was produced and directed by Matt Hindra and Nick Kraus in 2014. While Matt and Nick traveled around the country screen the film it became obvious that there were many other Veteran stories across America that needed to be recorded and shared so in 2017 we created USA Warrior Stories, a a Not-For-Profit organization designed to record, archive and share videos of Veteran stories online to help Veterans make a connection with one another and to help us all better understand their sacrifices for our freedom.
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