Regarding my Town of Porter's Veteran Project I beieve I told you that I had provided the Town Hall, the Village of Youngstown Clerk's Office and the Town of Porter Historical society with CDs containing all the information I had gathered on our our local veterans which so far now total 1,077 veterans. There are two folders on the CD's. One is a database showing the individuals and basic information about their service. To print out the entire list is only 30 pages and therefore they all have a handy reference as to the names and which wars they served in. However, the other folder is one that I've labeled Porter Veteran Personal Page and the folder contains 1,077 separate word processing documents. Each document spells out more information about the individuals such as what theatre of war they served in, what unit or ship they served on (and where) and what medals they were awarded. And to print out that many documents would take hours, days and weeks in my estimation. Well there was no doubt in my mind that neither the Town Hall nor the Village Clerk's office could spare one person to spend that amount of time. By the same token, I know that up at our Historical Society museum we don't have a large enough volunteer force to even attempt it. Therefore, if "someone" doesn't print out those pages, they would only be stored in somebody's computer and the public wouldn't be free to browse through them. And I couldn't let that happen. The information contained in those pages is even more important than just a listing of the veterans. So I bit the bullet and volunteered to print them out myself. But there was one condition I insisted on. First off, my printing them out would be for the Historical Society and therefore I expected them to pay for a new ink cartridge for my printer (I have no idea how many pages one cartridge can print out), and to provide me with two reams of three-hole-punched paper for printout. After a BIG hassle, the society finally agreed and issued me a check to pay for the supplies at OfficeMax. Tonight I finally got my engines fired up and got everything set up. For the first hour it was trial and error but after that it went rather smoothly. After a total of three hours I finally managed to print out the pages from Adams, John, who served in the Civil War to Dumond, Sinai, who served in WWII. So from A to D I've already filled up a 1" three-ring-notebook. Obviously I'm going to have to scrounge around for larger notebooks. I just counted the number of pages I printed out in the past three hours and they total about 280. Therefore only about 800 more to go. But with my dedication I know I'll see the project through. Because if I don't, nobody else will. And I can't let that happen. vee