National Guard project will share soldiers' stories

National Guard project will share soldiers' stories
Written by
Valerie Zehl
Calling all National Guard soldiers of the Southern Tier who've served in Iraq and Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001: The New York Army National Guard wants to tell your stories.

"Remember My Service," a project financed by the National Guard Bureau, is intended to create a digital chronicle of those individuals' roles in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn in Iraq.

"The New York National Guard is the only part of America's military team, and perhaps from our culture, that has literally gone from Ground Zero, to the Sunni Triangle and on to the mountains of Afghanistan," said Lt. Col. Paul Fanning, the RMS Command Project Officer and the guard's state public affairs officer.

"Now we have a project to get the details of their service, as personal as we can possibly make it."
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National Guard project will share soldiers' stories