To hold someone's memory is a responsibility. These are the commitments that make it possible for a person to trust a stranger with theirs.
Every contributor takes part willingly, and is told plainly how their words will be used. Each may review their record before it is published, and may ask for any part of it to be changed or withdrawn at any time, for any reason.
Interviews are edited only for clarity — to remove the stumbles of natural speech — never for tone, emphasis, or meaning. The aim is simple: that the voice on the page is the voice that was in the room.
Names, places, dates and events are researched and footnoted, so that personal recollection sits beside verifiable history. Where memory and record differ, the speaker's account is kept as given, and the context noted — never overwritten.
It does not publish operational, tactical, or strategically sensitive detail, and it does not offer political evaluation. Its subject is lived experience and personal recollection — not analysis, and not judgement.
Many contributors are elderly, and some recollections are difficult to return to. Conversations move at the speaker's own pace, and nothing is pressed that a person does not wish to share.
These are not rules imposed from outside. They are the conditions under which a person can trust a stranger with their memory — and the reason this archive can exist at all.