The mission of the Foundation is to create a very special book that can be sold to raise funds that may be given for worthwhile projects or commemorations on behalf of veterans of WWII. In some cases the books may be provided the organizations to be sold by their own groups. See our web page at American Heritage International Foundation Millennium 2000.

During September 2001, the IAHF 2000 Foundation sponsored a return to the fields of Europe where conflict occurred during WW II. The purpose was to pinpoint and photograph sites where incidents reflecting the heroism of humankind took place during the conflict and since that time.

A crew from the International American Heritage Foundation photographed and documented the present, and provided photographic images of a time and place when Americans, men, women and children of other countries and generation performed acts to preserve freedom for all peoples. Individuals who live in those areas were be asked to make a statement or two about their thoughts.

The work will become the essence of a illustrative book balancing on opposite pages the location during war time and as it appear today, focusing not so much on combat but on heroic deeds of the military and civilians alike.

An example of the kind of story we want to relate is that of the group which is recovering MIA along the Moselle River. The recoveries of Americans killed in combat are important and represents a new kind of heroism. Once the individuals are identified, the several governments make arrangements for the appropriate ceremonies befitting a man who gave his life half a century ago to keep freedom alive.

A community cemetery in Belgium has a special area set off for RCAF flyers killed over their townsite during WWI and WWII. During the aircraft attacks on a nearby airfield at night, the underground went to the airfield nearby, and carried the men into the civilian cemetery for burial. Today the British Government honors the site with appropriate marble markers.

These are but two examples of the kinds of stories we want to build into the work. The text will be short; we hope to make the photographs tell the story of what is being done to keep the story of what was given up to keep our freedoms.