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Stars and Stripes Museum Summer Camp for Aspiring Journalists: The 3rd Annual Journalism Summer Camp will be held Monday, July 14 to Friday, July 18, 2025 from 10am to 4pm each day at The Stars and Stripes National Museum and Library.
Join us for our exciting January Kids Day at the Museum as we talk about the Civil War in Southeast Missouri in 1865! This event is free and open to the public.
Dan Coberly reflects on 27 years in military journalism, emphasizing the critical need for journalists to maintain independence and focus on local reporting to effectively inform and engage readers.
The publisher at European Stars and Stripes was an Air Force colonel named Gene Townsend. From a stack of candidates that he later told me was about 140 people, he selected me as editor. He said he received high marks about me from Joe Lyons, who was the publisher of The Times-Union at the time.
Join us for our exciting November Kids Day at the Museum as we celebrate the 163rd anniversary of the Stars and Stripes Military Newspaper! This event is free and open to the public.
Barry Williams' journey with Stars and Stripes began long before he joined the organization. As an Air Force officer stationed in Norway in 1985, Williams became an avid reader of the publication. "I was a news junkie," he recalls, "and Stripes was just something I felt very connected to from the mission."