Congratulations to Neal Shapiro and his team at WNET Thirteen on an innovative online community engagement initiative called War Stories. Partnering with Open Media Network, the initiative permits people to submit video recollections of their wartime experiences. They can do so by either video tape or direct uploading to OMN. You can view the project at www.omn.org/partners/WNET/WarStories or through a link on the front page at thirteen.org.
Update 15 June, 2007:
I've been pointed to a similar effort at KETC/9 in St. Louis -- also a nice one for which congratulations are in order. I am told by their consultant that they were doing this first. KETC is using YouTube and Facebook instead of OMN. I'd be interested from others who are doing this. Thanks to Rob Paterson for the tip and apologies to KETC president Jack Galmiche for missing this -- both friends. --Dennis
My father, Charles V Piliero, served in the navy during WWII and while at sea got an idea for a song eventially written in 1947 titled Nitey Nite based on the perspective of a child whos soldier-parent was "away" and would be coming home "soon". The song was filed away in a shoe box until he retired and moved to Lake City, Florida. There, in 1999, he retrived the song for a local girl to sing on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion contest: Talent from Towns Under 2000 Contest held in New York City on April 15, 2000. ( this show and song can be heard on the archives ) Leilani Clark was 12 years old at the time and won the contest hands down.
Posted by: michael piliero | Wednesday, 11 July 2007 at 15:12