Untold Millions: How You Can Capture and Save Eyewitness History

by Don Keith

We lose more than 700 World War II veterans a day. With each of them, we are also burying or cremating untold millions of stories that depict eyewitness history. That is also true of those who experienced the Korean War, the Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts. Those who helped put the first man on the moon, survived the Great Depression, were the foot-soldiers in the Civil Rights movement, those who took part in major social change, and so many others who can tell us first-hand what it was like to live through these and other historical events. Journals, diaries, letters, and other writings hide in shoe boxes and closets. Most will never see the light of day. People are waiting for someone to ask them to tell their stories and share their experiences but nobody is capturing those fading recollections before it is too late.Now, with exciting new publishing technology, it is possible for anyone to gather, prepare and make available to the world this invaluable living history with no monetary investment at all. With digital books and print-on-demand, it is now feasible for anyone to help make sure oral histories, written documentation, in-person interviews and more are preserved for readers, historians, authors, researchers and anyone else who wants to sample and learn from first-hand accounts of history.The UNTOLD MILLIONS Oral History Project seeks to attract volunteers to help preserve history using modern technology such as Kindle, Nook, and CreateSpace. This book by award-winning and best-selling author and UNTOLD MILLIONS project founder Don Keith explains in detail why this effort is so crucial. This e-book gives you the exact steps you can take to employ this amazing technology to do your part. Learn more about this vital effort and then pass along the information to others who may be interested.We must not allow this eyewitness history to die with those who lived it now that the means to preserve it is available to all of us.

59 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 3, 2012

About the author

Award-winning and best-selling author of more than 40 published works, Don Keith was born in 1947 and has lived in the South all his life. He attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa where he received his degree in broadcast and film communication with a minor in English and literature. While working as a broadcast journalist, he won awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting. He was also the first winner of Troy State University's Hector Award for innovation in broadcast journalism. As an on-the-air broadcaster, Don won the Billboard Magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over twenty years in Birmingham and Nashville, and also owned his own consultancy, co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, radio station (WZEW-FM), and hosted and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.

His first novel, THE FOREVER SEASON, was published by St. Martin's Press in the fall of 1995 to commercial and critical success. It called heavily on Keith's own athletic and academic experiences. Reviewers praised its unique approach and powerful story. The novel won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award in 1997, joining works likewise honored from Harper Lee and others, and was re-issued in the fall of 2002 by the University of Alabama Press as part of its prestigious Deep South Books series.

He has written both fiction and non-fiction, including several books on WWII history, biographies, and military thrillers. His co-written thriller, HUNTER KILLER, was the basis for the hit movie starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman.