Legacy of Bravery

Legacy of Bravery provides opportunities for graphic designers, journalists and photographers to grow their craft while honoring our veterans and military.

Help raise awareness of our local treasures, our veterans. Below are several ways an individual, school or neighborhood can get involved in the Legacy of Bravery cause.

Share Your Story

Leave your mark. Share your service experience. Share a story on how a vet touched your life.

First, you have to decide on the medium. What is the best way to tell your story?

Would you like to contribute to the photo collection? Would you like to contribute a short-story? Would you like to be considered for a personalized video? Would you like to have your own personalized page within our website? Click on your preferred medium for more information.

We would prefer to receive a compact disc with all of the materials included. Please send approval packets in a printed format. Allow 4-6 weeks to process your contribution. Materials will not be returned. Let us know if you would like to be considered for our A Legacy of Bravery video collection. Click on your medium below to get started.

• Photos & Memorabilia
• Video
• Print & Documents
• Original Music
• Website

Spread the Word

• Nominate a Veteran
  • Print out our certificate, "You have been invited to participate in A Legacy of Bravery." Give the gift of recognition to your vet.
• Email a Friend
  • Tell your friends! Send an email to your history buff. Do you know a Oregon veteran who lives outside of the state or abroad? Send them the link. Show them how they can be involved.
• Bring A Legacy of Bravery to your School
  • The Legacy of Bravery project is a community builder. Stories from our own Veteran's Memorial can be a valuable tool used by our educators and parents to instill local pride for our heroes.

Student Contributions, Assist a Vet:

Assist a veteran by helping them prepare their contribution packets. Scan images. Record or type in their hand-written stories or journals. Please contact us and we can pair you with a veteran.

Press Kit:

Share our brochure, poster and press release with others. Shed light on the Legacy of Bravery projects.

The Legacy Collective

"Taking it to the streets."

The Legacy Collective is coming to your town. For one day, our team will be in your neighborhood to take submissions to A Legacy of Bravery and hear your stories face to face.

Bring your pictures, poetry, music, letters or footage and upload it to your own page. Submit artwork or writing related to your hometown memorial and tell us what it means to you. Let your voice be heard!We are planning our first road trip! we would love an invitation to archive in your town.

The Process:

The Legacy Collective will set up in a large conference room. The wing of a building with a series of small rooms would be ideal.

Rooms would be labeled for easy access. We will be able to scan and photo items in one room, while narratives and video can be accomplished in other rooms.

Local volunteers can be as involved as they want to be, assisting our participants and helping us with cataloging stories and labeling information.

We will leave your hometown Legacy representative enough information to follow up on any additional participants. They will be named our Legacy satellite representative and given a special place on our website.

The Klamath Basin's contribution to military efforts over the years has been substantial, making it a place of deep military significance. Still, the stories behind the bricks at the Veteran's Memorial and the images at the Klamath County Museum's Veterans exhibit are a mystery to most.

This was The Creativity Collective's incentive for developing the Legacy of Bravery Memorial Tours, a multi-media tour that highlights Klamath County's military history through the vibrant stories of area veterans, enlisted and those who's lives have been touched along the way.

Areas of interest include the:

• Klamath County Museum
• Marine Barracks Memorial
• Kingsley Field
• Veterans Memorial
• Courthouse KIA Memorial Shaft
• The Memorial Cemetery
• The Mitchell Monument

The tour hopes to include the Internment Camps and Lava Beds in its second season.

While being transported, tour-goers will experience the history of each destination as told through pre-recorded or guide-narrated stories from our service men and women.

The 2-4 hour multi-media tour could begin as early as Memorial Day and will run until Veterans Day.