NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Joey Balfour is the Assistant Director of Oral History at the National WWII Museum. The digital collections of the WWII Museum is vital to the memory and lessons of humanity.

The team responsible for collection and cataloging of WWII veteran interviews continues to collect interviews every year.

Balfour talks about what inspires his world. "Everybody saw the war differently and everybody's got their own story. My grandfathers both served in World War II. My dad's dad drove an aviation gasoline truck around England and probably never heard a shot fired. My mom's dad was a combat engineer and on the other hand heard a lot of shots fired. Neither of them talked about what they did. They both died when I was pretty young. Me wanting to know those stories is what got me i

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