Maine Memory Network

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II

August 12, 1967 was the most significant day of my life
by Bob Small

How the Vietnam war affected my life

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR

An allegory about the Vietnam war
by Bill Hinderer

An allegory about my service in the Vietnam War

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

We will remember
by Sam Kelley

My service in the Vietnam War

Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne

Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII

A poem about my experiences in Vietnam
by Doug Rawlings

A poem about my experiences in Vietnam

My service in Afghanistan with the Marines and my life today
by Nicholas Krier

My service in Afghanistan with the Marines

Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
by Jamison McAlister

Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

How the first chapter Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine
by Doug Rawlings

Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine and is now an international movement

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down