What is Happening With
HomeOfHeroes.com
No doubt many who have
been regular visitors to HomeOfHeroes.com have become aware of
the lack of either updates or additions since late 2009. In
fact, over the last two years our focus has changed for a
time, and the only work being done on the website is ADDING
new recipients of the Medal of Honor when an award is
presented or updating our pages when one of the Living MOH
recipients passes away.
This web effort was begun
in 1998, initially to preserve and provide the history of
those who have received our nation's highest award, the Medal
of Honor. In the decade that followed, we expanded to start
including recipients of other awards in the belief that NO
AMERICAN HERO should be "lost to history." In that
process we learned that there exists no database or listing of
the recipients of military awards other than the Medal of
Honor, either officially or unofficially.
We endeavored to correct
that sad lapse in official records by expanding HomeOfHeroes
to include recipients of the Service Crosses in 2002, and
again expanded in 2005 to try and compile the recipients of
the Silver Star. It is an immense, at the time believed to be
an impossible task, but one that has grown over the years, but
that was hampered by the lack of resources. In 2009
"Military Times" came to the rescue, partnering with
me to try and complete this database, which is no online at:
www.MilitaryTimes.com/hallofvalor
At the time that I
partnered with Military Times, I made a three-year commitment
to work towards trying to compile, at the least, the names and
citations for ALL awards of the Silver Star and higher for the
Military Times project...a compendium involving some 150,000
awards. I have spent the last two years building that database
and will continue to devote ALL my efforts towards that
throughout the remainder of this year. It is my hope that this
effort will be extended, for I will certainly have much work
to do on it beyond the 3-year limit of my agreement with
Military Times.
At such time as I have
completed my contract with Military Times (whether late this
year or after any subsequent extension) I will return to
continue work on HomeOfHeroes.com....this is my first love and
my passion. But so long as men and women who have received
some of our highest military awards remain "lost to
history" my work will continue on that database.
With the exception of the
above listed updates to this website, this year I have
undertaken one additional addition...posting the pages to a
work Pam and I began in 2002 and completed in 2006. We hope
you enjoy that new effort.
Thank you for
understanding the greater need for this awards database, and
in the meantime, you will still find many pages of
inspirational history in HomeOfHeroes.com to be discovered.
Sincerely,
Doug Sterner
