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Archive Home > 2009 > November > 11 > Turning their pasts into history

Turning their pasts into history

Local veterans are taking part in a national project to preserve their war stories

By Erin Golden / The Bulletin
November 11, 2009

There are times when Jinny Collins Cooper has to turn off her tape recorder in the middle of interviews with local veterans and let them cry.

Some of the approximately 60 men and women she’s interviewed over the last five years are happy to talk until the tape runs out. Others nervously crack....

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