|
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
Press Room
Press Kit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Military Brats Online Begins its Seventh year of Service
When Vann Baker launched Military Brats Online, a simple five-page web site
in December of 1995, he had
no idea that a few years later his tiny web site would grow to be over 100 pages, with hundreds of links to other web sites, Military Brat stories and thousands of
e-mails generated as Military Brats found alumni sites and reconnected.
"Over the years my 'labor of love" has grown in size and the amount of work required to keep it current. But the e-mails I get thanking me for the resources provided keep me going," said Vann Baker.
The web site has grown in size and complexity as the Internet has grown. When Military Brats Online was first launched in 1995, there were only a few thousand web sites on the Internet. Today there are hundreds of thousands of web sites, many which are Military Brat oriented. Military Brats Online offers Military Brats a wealth of information in the form of articles on Military Brat Life.
Military Brats Online also offers links to hundreds of alumni organizations and announcements, helping Military Brats to reconnect with people they grew up with and a unique heritage.
"I am looking forward to providing even more news and information for Military Brats in 2002, making this the best year ever for Military Brats everywhere," said Vann.
Contact Information:
Press Release Archives
January 1, 2002
to the Military Brat community.
Vann Baker, 678-969-0448, vann@militarybrats.net, www.militarybrats.net
|
Disclaimer |
Privacy
|
Mission Statement
|
Contact Us Web site design and hosting by Design-First. |
|
. . . Eddie Cheever is a Military Brat?
For a more complete list, be sure to take a look at Glenn Greenwood's Famous Overseas Alumni & Military Brats list, located on the American Overseas School Historical Society web site.
|
|
by Vann Baker
What is green, covered with stickers and filled with memories and icons which only a Military Brat can understand? Operation Footlocker.
We've all grown up with footlockers, but Operation Footlocker doesn't travel with one person from destination to anotherit travels to brat reunions, events and military bases as a mobile memory project.
Operation Footlocker is a grassroots effort to celebrate the shared cultural identity of Military Brats and grew out a discussion in the spring of 1996 on the Military Veterans of America site within America Online.
Mary Edwards Wertsch, author of the book Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, and one of the participants in the discussion, first conceived the idea of taking a real footlocker and sending it around the country as a way of gathering
memorabilia and bringing brats together. Reta Jones Nicholson provided the first footlocker and was the catalyst who brought Operation Footlocker from discussion to realty.
Operation Footlocker is a volunteer effort and requests can be made to have the footlocker shipped to for brat events or sharing brat history with the general public.
For more information on appearances or to bring the Footlocker to your event, visit the Operation Footlocker web site.
This article first appeared in On The Move, Volume 1, Number 1.
|
|
Sample . . .
" . . . Many of the events of my life, the places I have lived, and the people I have met cannot be understood by people who have always lived in the same community."
More
|
