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Veteran's Oral History Project



 I believe someone posted recently about this and was looking for more
information.  And so, as luck would have it, in case no one replied
off-list, in this week's edition of the Library Academic News Wire, here is
more info.

 LC LAUNCHES WARTIME ORAL HISTORY
Hundreds of New York area veterans joined Library of
Congress officials last week aboard the U.S.S. Intrepid Sea-
Air-Space Museum in New York City to celebrate the launch
of the LC's Veterans History Project. The Veterans History
Project, a program of the Library of Congress through its
American Folklife Center, is designed to assemble a
national oral history by urging Americans of all ages to
collect the first-person accounts of those who served
America during wartime. The LC is collecting and preserving
oral histories and documentary materials from veterans of
World War I, World War II and the Korean, Vietnam and
Persian Gulf Wars and stories from the home front.

"More than 1,600 veterans are dying each day, so there is
an urgent need to collect their stories and experiences,"
said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "This
project will also allow the next generation to learn about
and speak to those who have fought to sustain the freedom
that we find challenged throughout the world today." The
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was
created in 1976 to document, preserve and present all
aspects of traditional culture and life in America. With
more than two million items, it maintains the largest
repository of traditional cultural documentation in the
United States. For more information about the Veterans
History Project, call (800) 315-8300 or visit the web site
at www.loc.gov/vets.

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