Iowa Veterans Museum and Grout Museum District
I worked as a videographer for the Grout Museum where I helped with the Iowa Veterans Project where interviews are conducted with various vets to contribute to the Voices of Veterans Theaters where in the upper level of the Iowa Veterans Museum feature the voices of actual veterans through video interviews, which capture the emotion and pride they experienced.
I also helped recruit veterans to participate in the Voices of Veterans Project by making a package for UNI-TV to reach veterans attending UNI and get their stories from the most recent conflicts our veterans have served in.
I helped take photos for and design publications for recruiting as well as help lobby finance and budgeting committees in the Iowa House and Iowa Senate at the Iowa Capital to receive funding for the Iowa Veterans Museum to continue this honorable project.
I also helped recruit veterans to participate in the Voices of Veterans Project by making a package for UNI-TV to reach veterans attending UNI and get their stories from the most recent conflicts our veterans have served in.
I helped take photos for and design publications for recruiting as well as help lobby finance and budgeting committees in the Iowa House and Iowa Senate at the Iowa Capital to receive funding for the Iowa Veterans Museum to continue this honorable project.
Donald McGrane
This was a special and challenging product. The challenge was the fact I was given an old interview video from a widow of a Vietnam vet, Donald McGrane, from Waverly, Iowa. The video had really bad audio so I had to work hard to fix the audio while at the same time incorporate music, graphics and media such as photographs where I researched the archives of the Navy squadron he belonged to (HS-2) so I would get photos of the time period and scans of the Western Union Telegraphs and letters from the US Navy that his widow received to make the video more appealing.
The special part was I was able to go to Washington DC and see the internment of the Petty Officer McGrane at Arlington Cemetery with the remains of four crew mates from his downed helicopter. The experience brought back great memories of my service as a sailor in the US Navy for 12 years but also brought back the other side of returning remains of fallen service members to families as 4 of the years I served was with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) as a photographer and team leader helping excavate and return remains like Petty Officer McGrane’s to the families in the US.
The following video has highlight segments from the interview with Donald McGrane’s widow, Karen and images I captured from his internment at Arlington Cemetery.
The special part was I was able to go to Washington DC and see the internment of the Petty Officer McGrane at Arlington Cemetery with the remains of four crew mates from his downed helicopter. The experience brought back great memories of my service as a sailor in the US Navy for 12 years but also brought back the other side of returning remains of fallen service members to families as 4 of the years I served was with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) as a photographer and team leader helping excavate and return remains like Petty Officer McGrane’s to the families in the US.
The following video has highlight segments from the interview with Donald McGrane’s widow, Karen and images I captured from his internment at Arlington Cemetery.