An AMERiGLEN program. Watkins Glen, New York.
Found, or Forgotten.
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Veterans and military monuments are the bullseye. The whole dartboard is in play: the bridge your grandfather fished off, the field where the fair used to be, the stone nobody reads anymore.
Stand there a minute. Read what is already written on it. Learn the normal rhythm of the place before you look for anything new.
Check the map. If the place is missing, you found the gap. If it is there, you may have found a story nobody added yet.
One honest photo in good light. Names legible. No filters needed. The place is the subject, so get out of its way.
Say what it means in a few plain sentences. The five W's carry it. If you need help writing it, that is what iGlen is for.
Pin it. The story rides with the place from then on, for whoever comes looking next.
Some places are marked on the map by the people who care for them. Some are not. Operation Location is for the ones that are not yet.
The field version of the mark. DAGR and the Buddy Team carry this one, and they keep putting markers out when the Storyteller can't make the walk. Meet DAGR
The red marker began as a grandson's way of keeping one name on the map. He decided to share it, so every person who drops a pin marks what that place means to them. Pick up the tag if you want the story.
Lieutenant Alfred E. Nauman flew for the United States Navy in the Korean War and remains Missing in Action. His grandson grew up with that open line in the family record, the kind of absence that never gets a headstone to visit.
Operation Location is what he built in place of one. A marker on a map is not a grave, but it is a place a story can live, and a way to make sure a name stays Found. The first pin was his. The rest are yours.
Further details of Lieutenant Nauman's service are being confirmed against the official record before they are published here.