6/6/13
Are you a veteran interested in sharing your personal, first-hand account of your wartime experience with future generations? Are you interested in preserving your story as a permanent part of history? If so, the Veterans History Project, organized by the Library of Congress, wants to hear your story. You will be interviewed for a video documentary by communications and media students from local community colleges with the goal of chronicling war stories and personal experiences from some of the most important chapters of our nation’s history.
The Veterans History Project was created in 2000 by the U.S. Congress as a way to preserve and make accessible the first-hand accounts of American war veterans. It is critical that future generations have the opportunity to hear directly from veterans to better understand the realities of war, from as early as WWII to current conflicts. To learn more about the project, click on the following link: www.loc.gov/vets.
A copy of your story will be submitted to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, where it will become a permanent part of the Library’s Veterans History Project.
We are looking for wartime veterans between now and July 5, 2013. If you have any questions or would like to participate, please contact Florence Champagne in my Suitland District Office at 301-516-7601. Let’s work together to make sure that the heroes from Maryland’s 4th Congressional District who have served and defended this great nation receive the lasting tribute they so richly deserve.
Sincerely,
Donna F. Edwards
Member of Congress
