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1 man is on a mission to capture stories of Cajun WWII vets


1 man is on a mission to capture stories of Cajun WWII vets
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By CRYSTAL STEVENSON and The American Press
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Associated Press
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Saturday, April 17, 2021
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) - Listening intently behind the camera, Jason Theriot has recorded more than 200 World War II veterans as part of a two-decade passion project to document their oral histories before they are all gone.
He’s hoping to find even more.
“I had an idea to interview my grandfather, maybe some of his friends, about their World War II experiences and write a short book about them,” Theriot said. “I had taken journalism at LSU and I had a niche for writing and had a bit of an obsession about World War II going back to when I was a little kid.” ....

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