Utah Miltary People and Their Stories

Tens of thousands of men and women have stories related to Utah military history. We can never provide details on all, or even name them all.

But, we can gather and preserve some of their stories.

This page is a place to recognize many of those people with a brief biography or selection of stories about their roles. The contributions of privates and family members, and those who only served in peace time roles are important to preserve, as well as the combat heroics or achievements of high ranked leaders. If your story is more than a page or two, we may post it as a separate entry with just a summary on this page, so the whole story will be available. We can include photos.

WE WANT YOUR CONTRIBUTION HERE!

HOW TO GET YOUR STORY INCLUDED:
This will be handled similar to the "wikipedia" where anyone is welcome to submit information. We will help with minor spelling or gramatical corrections (if needed), and do any necessary editing to make it fit the web page format. All submissions must be approved by the webmaster who reserves the right to reject any submission deemed inappropriate. We ask that submitters identify themselves so they can get credit for their submission. You are free to list references, or sources of more information. Please submit as email attachments, preferably as Microsoft Word documents or .txt documents, with images as .jpg documents. Sorry, we cannot transcribe handwritten or typed submissions.

Here is what we want:

• Biographies of prominent and little known Utah military figures. These can be an ancestor or just someone you have some information about.
• If you can provide a photo or documents to accompany the entry, that is a plus. (Either send these as .jpg scans, or email us and we will figure out how to convert them for use on the web without harming the originals.)
• Stories about experience as a military family member, POW, civilian worker suporting the military in Utah, etc. are all welcome because truly "those who watch and wait, also serve."
• We want to hear the good, the bad and the ugly. The great successes, and dismal failures, the pranks you played on the officers, or the clever ways you worked through a maze of regulations to get a job done. Tell us about the people you admired, and those you really didn't like very well. We want to know about those born, raised, married, divorced, or buried here with connections to the military. Tell us about recruiting and being recruited, about training, mobilization, deployment, and homecoming.
• Tell us the stories you heard from your grandfather, or want your grandkids to know someday.
• Please send us your story - a paragraph or two or dozens of pages.

As the number of contributions grow, we will eventually index them and sort them by name, unit, and time period and branch of service. Initially, we will just list them all as submitted.

Click here to submit your story

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Fort Douglas Military Museum Association
Revised:24 August 2007