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THE HONOR PROJECT
HEROES OF OUR NATION ON RECORD
Digital Ranch and First Person Productions Team Up to Archive Stories of America's Veterans in Audio Documentaries

Los Angeles, CA, March 11, 2002 - Digital Ranch and First Person Productions jointly announced today a series of audio documentaries, In Their Own Words, created to capture the heroic and moving stories of wartime veterans. According to Rob Kirk, Digital Ranch co-founder, and Marc Honorof, President, First Person Productions, this first piece of The HONOR Project: Heroes of Our Nation on Record available to the general public will be released March 11.

The initial three titles of the In Their Own Words series, "D-Day," "The Race Across Europe" and "War in the Pacific," will be released on audio CD and cassette with an approximate running time of four hours each and a $19.95 retail price. Collected over the past 11 years from interviews with the men who battled on the front lines, these productions take the listener inside the drama and suffering of war.

Since 1991, award-winning television producers Kirk and Rob Lihani of Digital Ranch Productions have been recording and archiving the remarkable and very personal stories of living U.S. wartime veterans from World War I through modern conflicts. To provide an ongoing structure for the video and audio documentation of these stories, recounted by those who lived them, Kirk and Lihani founded The HONOR Project: Heroes of Our Nation On Record.

"We are in the business of reporting history," said Kirk, "Right now, these incredibly candid stories from a passing generation are what America wants to hear. We didn't just sit these men down with a list of questions and ask them to reel off facts. We let them speak from the heart and captured all the emotion of their experiences."

"By wrapping contextual narration around these astonishing stories and adding high quality production values," said Honorof, "we have produced documentaries which are not only educational, but fascinating as well, along the lines of Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation, or HBO's Band of Brothers. Now that these veterans are in their late 70s, 80s and 90s, their accounts need to be remembered and archived. There simply is no substitute for listening to these men tell us their own experiences, in their own words and voices."

As an official partner of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project, The HONOR Project will ultimately donate its archived audiotape library in its entirety to the Library of Congress. Established last year, the Veterans History Project is a project of the Library of Congress, through its American Folklife Center, and is designed to encourage Americans of all ages to collect first-person accounts of those who defended America.

"In Their Own Words" is available to the public at www.firstpersonaudio.com and fine bookstores everywhere. A portion of the sales from "In Their Own Words" will be donated to help fund The Honor Project.