The first of the photos are being uploaded and labeled. I have approximately 300 images scanned in the first batch. They all need to be cropped, adjusted (brightness & contrast), resized, uploaded, and labeled.
Update: The first wave of photos have been posted to the to the Photo Gallery and anything written on the back has been added in the description. Anything written in italics is what is written (or typed) on the back of that photo. Once I have translations of the Italian and German, the English translation will be included inside of curly brackets {Like this}.
Any help from anyone who reads either Italian or German and would be willing to do some translation work would be greatly appreciated. I can’t pay you, but you’ll get a very public thank you and credit here on the site.
The photos aren’t organized very specifically, yet. That will come later. Many of them may be in the wrong section right now. That, too, will get sorted out later.
Posted on February 17th, 2008 by Blaze
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Good news!
The first video has been recorded. It’s about an hour worth of stories and some general background. It still needs to be edited out into small sections suitable for posting. That should happen in the next couple weeks.
The scanning of photos is progressing also. So far, I’ve got about 40 pages worth of photos scanned, with about 8-10 photos per page. They need to be cropped, enhanced (most of them are very washed out), organized, and tagged. A lot of them have things written on the back (sometimes in Italian), and it’s important that these notes be correctly recorded.
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by Blaze
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In the coming months, this site will become a repository for the stories and memories of Joseph Miskulin.
He’s a man who grew up in Chicago during the 1930s. He knew the legendary gangsters personally. He was there the day Dillinger was found in the alley and saw the body. He enlisted in the US Army during World War II. He fought Rommel’s forces in North Africa. He was a part of the force which took the Anzio beach head. He saw Mussolini hanging in the square in Milan.
He’s been a soldier, a printer, a tile layer, a trucker, a bartender, and an outlaw biker–amongst other things.
It’s my hope that his memories and stories will be a tool that others can use to teach the next generation. These are actual memories–not official textbook propaganda.
Posted on December 17th, 2007 by Blaze
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