I have a friend at Virginia Beach who has her father's diary from WWII and believes it should be preserved and published.  He was an officer in the Army Air Corps, captured with the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, and spent the rest of his life as a POW.  He was the senior officer in camp.  He died, but his fellow POWs brought the diary back.  

As you may guess the pages are getting old and brittle, so if anything is to be done with the diary, it probably should be done in the next few years. 

Is there any organization in Virginia, the U.S. Army, or anyplace else who is interested in gathering such documents, with an eye toward preserving and/or printing them? 

Randy Cabell
Boyce, Virginia

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