Be a Part of Veterans History
The VA is calling for volunteers to assist with the Veterans History Project. This Veterans Day, honor our veterans. Record their stories! The VA says that by recording the oral histories of our veterans, we preserve the human face of American history for generations to come and honor those men and women who swore to protect and defend the U.S. Each day as Veterans Day approaches, the VA home page will introduce you to veterans’ oral histories from the digital archive of the Library of Congress — one from each state and territory. Interested in learning more about a veteran from your state? Just click on the map. To find out more about the Veterans History Project and how you

Remembering Loved Ones Online
Tributes.com, an online resource for local and national obituary news and multimedia tributes, announced today that they have added a new product to their line of online memorial offerings specifically designed to help families honor lost loved ones who served in the U.S. military. Tributes.com is now providing families with easy-to-use tools to create a lasting military tribute, complete with information on their loved one’s time of service, duty stations and deployments, photo slideshows for military memories, as well as branch-specific themes, as a way to honor and remember their fallen heroes. You can also read “

Just passed: Military Spouse Residency Relief Act
Carter Floor Remarks: Mr. Speaker, good afternoon. As the author of the identical companion bill, H.R. 1182, and the Representative to Fort Hood, Texas, I rise in very strong support of the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act. First, allow me to thank everyone who has worked for the last few years to bring us to this point to include Senators Burr and Feinstein for taking up this cause and shepherding this past-due reform through the Senate. I would also like to thank Chairman Filner for supporting our military spouses and requesting the bill be taken up today. We greatly appreciate all the V.S.O.s who lent their s

Mil Tech — Teaching Machines to Read
Can machines be taught to read? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) intends to find out with its Machine Reading Program. DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory have awarded BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., $29.7 million in funding to develop an automated reading system that bridges the gap between naturally occurring text and the artificial intelligence reasoning systems that need such knowledge. The initial use of such an intelligent learning system would be to automate military intelligence analysis, but BBN Technologies maintains the system would have civilian applications, such as providing access and automated analysis for libraries that ha

WWII Like You’ve Never Seen it Before: In HD!
WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color. Culled from thousands of hours of lost and rare color archival footage gathered from a worldwide search through basements and archives, WWII in HD will change the way the world sees this defining conflict. Using footage never before seen by most Americans–converted to HD for unprecedented clarity–viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields. Along the way they’ll meet a diverse group of soldiers whose wartime diaries and journals show in visceral detail what the war was really like. This visua