Call Out for Veterans to Tell Their Stories

In honor of Veterans Day, 9th District U.S. Representative Doug Collins’ Gainesville office is partnering with the University of North Georgia to invite veterans to share their stories as part of the Veterans History Project.

The Veterans History Project is an archive at the Library of Congress that preserves narratives of veterans’ service through oral history interviews and documents such as photographs, letters, and journals.

By archiving these firsthand accounts, researchers and future generations will be able to better understand the realities of serving in our armed forces.

The first round of interviews is this Friday, November 8th, at the University of North Georgia’s Dahlonega Campus.

All veterans are invited to participate regardless of whether they served in combat or were deployed overseas.

The interviews will become part of the permanent collections of the Library of Congress and will be made available to researchers and the general public through the American Folklife Center Reading Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and the Veterans History Project website at www.loc.gov/vets.

If you are interested in sharing your story, or if you know of any veterans in your community who may be interested in participating, please contact Dan Mel in my Gainesville office at 770-297-3388 or [email protected].