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Originally Posted by emb021

Who says no one wants to help make this happen?

I posed this question to brothers numerous times over the years, and based on the responses I received, interest in such an area seem to be lukewarm at best.

I know that there are several of us into APO history, who are trying to dig into the lesser known areas of our history and make it more accessible. Many of the things you list here are some of the things several of us are trying to find.

Personally, I think that a good deal of information needed to pull off a history book of the magnitude that we are seeking will need to come from word of mouth from individuals who were directly involved with such events. Hopefully we can still get a sufficient amount of information from those who are still living and in decent health/memory to discuss the information we're seeking.

While, yes, an 'official' history may come from our National Archivist (that's the closest we have to a 'National Historian')...

Based on our last history book, I have always interpreted an Archivist keeping more of a pictorial/visual history, vs. a historian keeping more a written one.

...and we've already had one (which sadly I've never really seen. I ordered one of the last ones the National Office had, but it disappeared in the mail...), what I want would be a more objective history, giving the good and bad things that happened. (trials & tribulations).

While it's a shame that you didn't get your history book in the mail as ordered, from a written history standpoint, you really didn't miss much (though there was a abundance of interesting historical pics). The "In The Beginning" chapter was the best chapter of the book, IMO. The second chapter had very brief discussions on APO's history through the decades. Other chapters included our past presidents, past Nat's Exec Directors, sections, regions, chapters, the '67 Con-Con, etc. In short, from an archivist standpoint, it was a very good history book. From a historian standpoint, it really didn't say much, hence our collective desire to put together a more written in-depth history book.