Veterans - Tell Your Story and Make History Come to Life
The Library of Congress Needs Your Stories for the Veterans History Project
The Library of Congress VHP program began when the United State Congress created the Veterans History Project in 2000 to be a part of American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
The VHP is collecting and preserving the experiences of American war veterans and civilian workers who set their lives aside to support the war efforts and our soldiers. The idea behind the VHP is to preserve these first hand histories, memoirs, photographs, letters, diaries and other historical documents for future generations to hear and learn the realities of war.
The Veterans History Project is collecting our nations stories from those who served in World War I, World War II, The Cold war, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. U.S. citizen civilians who actively supported these war efforts such as war industry workers, USO workers and volunteers, flight instructors, medical volunteers and defense contractors and any others who participated during these days and years of conflict.
Veteran information will be added to the Veterans History Project's archives and the interviews and other materials will be available to the Congress and researchers who visit the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. they will also be available on the Veterans History Project website.
Participates need to remember that they are assisting our Country in making a permanent collection and record of these events in one of the world's most respected research and cultural institutions.
In Oregon or any other state in the nation, contact your local congressman if you wish to participate and have an interviewer come to you and take the video history of the events and activities that you personally were involved in during these past events. Make history for the generations of our Country in the years to come.
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25 Comments
Post a CommentMany of us want these things memories to die with us.
For many, these memories haunted us daily though we never spoke of them, were always right around the corner.
Many of us simply want the peace of knowing that those stories die when we die.
Never to be though of again
My grandpa is a WWII veteran, but all I can ever get him to do is complain about things!
PV love. In Beaumont, TX. Mom and I are not feeling well at all.
My husband's Dad is 93 and a WWII vet. We've asked him to do this, however, he never talks about the war.
Very cool, I hadn't heard of this before. Thanks for sharing :)
Thanks for not giving up on me ...although I am not commenting these days because of my hectic work schedule. Returning the PV love :)
What a wonderful program. Unfortunately, many vets prefer not to talk about their war experiences, but perhaps if they think it will add to our country's history, they'll open up.
This is cool.
How great!
This is a wonderful idea. My father was a World War II veteran. He never spoke about the war to us, but if he were alive today it would be a wonderful thing to have him preserve his memories.