Veteran Stories
A project by Veteran StoriesVeteran Stories is a supplement for the Service, Citizenship, and Civil Rights exhibit created by the Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University in 2022.
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Featured Stories
Albert Cashier – Immigrant, Civil War Soldier, Comrade-in-Arms
"Lots of boys enlisted under the wrong name. So did I. The country needed men, and I wanted excitement. I worked on an Illinois farm as a man the year before the war. I wasn't discovered and thought I'd try my luck in the service."~Albert Cashier,…
Anthony Acavedo – Soldier, Medic, POW
“It was my moral obligation [document my experiences]. God gave me that ink to last."
~Anthony Acavedo, Oral History Interview with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, October 13, 2010 Born in San Bernardino, California in 1924, Anthony…
Josefina Guerrero – Outcast, Spy, Citizen
“This was my quiet war.”
~Josefina Guerrero in the Congressional Record Proceedings of the 82nd Congress Second Session Appendix Volume 98 Part 10, April 28, 1952 - June 16, 1952 Botn in Lucban, Quezon province, in the Philippines in 1917, Josefine…