Donna Zephrine - U.S. Army 1996-2006

SPC. Donna Zephrine joined the U.S. Army Reserves in 1996 and became Full Active Duty in October 2002. Donna served with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division (260 QM) and served 2 tours in Iraq from 2003-2005 as a 63 Bravo Light Weight Vehicle Mechanic.
Donna is active in many organizations including Wounded Warrior Project, World T.E.A.M Sports, Team Red White and Blue and Project 9 Line. She recently graduated from Columbia University School of Social Work and hoped to give back to help other Veterans or people who are in need.
In her spare time, Donna enjoys writing and has been published in multiple anthologies. These publications include Radvocate Literary Magazine, the “Afterwords” anthology, the “9 lives” New York University’s Veteran’s Writers Workshop anthology, Bards Annual 2017, The Local Gem Press, War Writer’s Campaign, Poets and Writers, Blogground, Oberon Magazine 2017 and CA/T Magazine of Columbia University.

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Bill Field - U.S. Army 1971-74

Bill Field joined the U.S. Army in 1971 and trained as a Radar Repair Technician. Bill served at White Sands Missile Base in New Mexico with C Company in the missile test and evaluation devision working with Continuous Wave Radar designed for the Hawk Missile System. After leaving the military Bill started a successful appliance repair company with his father. Bill is currently retired and is an active member of American Legion Post 419 in Amagansett, NY.

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Joan A. Furey - U.S. Army 1968-70

Joan Furey began her career in Army service in 1968 as a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps. She later volunteered to be deployed to Vietnam, where she received a Bronze Star as a staff nurse.
In 1970, the U.S. Army discharged Joan from Vietnam, and after leaving Southeast Asia, she dedicated her life to Veteran Affairs.

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Lee A. Hayes - Bombardier WWII 1944-1946

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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Martin Sylvester U.S. Army 1943-1945

Martin Sylvester and his son Paul recently traveled to France for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day. While recording Martin's original story we were just about to turn the camera off when we asked Martin if there was anything else he would like to talk about. Martin replied, "Did I tell you about when the put me in front a firing squad?" That day we decided to never turn the cameras off. Thank you for continuing to be our inspiration.

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Soldier Ride UK 2011

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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Welcome to Soldier Ride - Feature Film

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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