About Phyllis Zimbler Miller
I’m Phyllis Zimbler Miller, co-founder of Miller Mosaic, LLC. During 2009 I “met” some amazing supporters of our troops thanks to my blog MrsLieutenant.blogspot.com and the BlogTalkRadio show YourMilitaryLife.com that I co-hosted with Nancy Brown of YourMilitary.com.
When this site was launched on May 8, 2009, I envisioned it as a repository of the stories of some of these inspiring people. (Coincidentally this launch date was exactly 39 years to the day that my ROTC husband went on active army duty at Ft. Knox, Kentucky.)
Then on September 24, 2009, I met Anita Sugimura Holsapple, who is behind the documentary Mental Valor. And over coffee we started exchanging our various contacts of people involved with films supporting our troops and their families.
This was the epiphany moment when I realized that all these people should be in contact with each other for support and shared resources.
I told Anita I would go back to my computer and create a LinkedIn group as a “meeting place” for these filmmakers, and that I would also turn this into a home for these film projects.
Then I decided on a more “ambitious” goal for this site. I became determined to make these amazing documentaries and feature films available to a much wider audience — no matter where in the world that audience is.
Now I’m on a quest to find a corporate sponsor who wants to support the troops by helping with this project. (If you have any contacts to such a corporate sponsor, do let me know. My contact info is below.)
And please join me in saying thanks to all the men and women who have served or who are serving or who will serve in the future.
Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Los Angeles, CA
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P.S. In a way this project brings me back full-cycle to 40 years ago:
During part of the time when my husband and I were stationed with the U.S. Army in Munich from 1970 to 1972 I had a GS-2 job with the Army Air Force Motion Picture Service. All day long I typed — on a manual typewriter — the list of 16 mm films going to different hilltops in Italy where small units of U.S. troops were stationed. (Eventually my security clearance came through and I moved up to a GS-3 position with the 66th Military Intelligence Group.)
Author of Mrs. Lieutenant: A Sharon Gold Novel
Co-Founder of Miller Mosaic, LLC
Here are my other military-related projects:
US Troops Supporters list on Twitter
Lt. Commander Mollie Sanders: A Fictional Character
Operation Support Jews in the Military
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