Digitally storing your "I love me wall"?

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:39:03 -0400

Last week I started scanning the contents of my "I love me" wall/book/etc, so that if anything ever happened to them, I would have a copy.

For those less familiar with the term, an "I love me" book is the actual award certificates, documents, and proof of what you did, above and beyond your record book. It's the "nice" things they give you, as compared to two line entry in your SRB with a date of completion. It's also what proves you have it, when things get lost.

Mine included little things like my first Honorable Discharge Cert, and my Reenlistment Cert. You get the idea. So I scanned those in, popped them on a thumbdrive, and shoved that in a fire safe.

But is there a better way to store it?

Does anyone know of a "service" where we can place these. Several of us have mentioned losing military memories previously, and it would be great to have some sort of cloud repository for these items. Many of them can be replaced, as they are standard forms, especially if you have the original verbiage, and the signatory name.

What are your thoughts?

Response by CPT Zachary Brooks made Mar 25 at 2015 4:39 PM

CPT Zachary Brooks — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 16:39:56 -0400

Make external HDD and cloud based back ups for sure. Don't want to lose that!

Amazon is being considered to hold the government's data and has a reasonable rate for personal use as well. Good place to start.

Response by TSgt Joshua Copeland made Mar 25 at 2015 7:05 PM

TSgt Joshua Copeland — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:05:37 -0400

Primary HDD, external HDD in a safe, external in a safe in another state, and a copy on my off site server.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 25 at 2015 7:06 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:06:46 -0400

Your iperms seems like a good place to have all this.

Response by SFC Stephen P. made Mar 25 at 2015 7:46 PM

SFC Stephen P. — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 19:46:22 -0400

Iperms and VA eBenefits

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made May 8 at 2017 9:08 AM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 08 May 2017 09:08:13 -0400

Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS, I am using Microsoft's OneDrive cloud, but I am paranoid about hacking. I use my own hard drive as well as flash drives, but I'm paranoid about file corruption with those! I am a writer and with my writing, I maintain hard copies of EVERYTHING!

Response by SGT Eric A. made Aug 7 at 2022 2:25 AM

SGT Eric A. — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 02:25:09 -0400

togetherweserved.com has a nice shadow box (digital and real) and some other cool stuff besides a big gathering place down to each unit or MOS.