About the Project

The American Bios Project is a community service project dedicated to the preservation of the memories and the lives of the veterans interred at the American Legion Cemetery in Tampa, Florida. We achieve this goal through diligent research of individual veterans with the aim of creating detailed and accurate biographies that tell the stories of these veterans' lives.

Our goal is to record the stories of these veterans out of both gratitude for their service and as a means to encourage and inspire future generations. We are trying to make the world aware of the stories of our veterans by giving their stories exposure, and by increasing the number of young people who are willing to research and dive into the lives of the heroes who have come before us.

We dive deep into historical records in order to piece together the lives of as many of the service members buried here as possible. Each biography is written from census records, enlistment and discharge papers, headstone applications, newspaper archives, obituaries, and the accounts of surviving family members.