Online Scrapbook Site Collects World War II Memories
Family history scrapbook company 1000memories will donate veterans' oral histories to the Library of Congress IDG News Service — An online family scrapbook company in San Francisco, 1000memories, is collecting oral histories from World War II veterans in Yountville, California, to share with the Library of Congress.Thousand Sacred Defense Book Fairs to open nationwide
The opening ceremony of Thousand Sacred Defense Book Fairs will be held this Friday, Nov.17, with the attendance of state and martial officials including Islamic Guidance and Culture Minister in Tehran's Friday Prayer's site.Thousands of Sacred Defense books to be donated
On the occasion of Book Week, Organization of Preservation and Publication of Sacred Defense Values in Mazandaran Province will donate 23,000 books, themed on Iraq's impose war against Iran, to the libraries of Mazandaran's universities, schools and Basij bases.4th academic book fair kicks off
The 4th academic book fair inaugurated this morning with the attendance of the deputy minister of Islamic Guidance and Culture for Cultural Affairs Bahman Dorri as well as the secretary of Book Week's headquarters Mohammad Allahyari.Sacred Defense book to be rendered into English, Arabic
Sacred Defense Values Publication and Preservation Organization in Mazandaran Province will translate two of its publications into English and Arabic.McCormick Foundation to fund black history project
CHICAGO — The McCormick Foundation is financing an oral history project that highlights the service of black soldiers.Oral history goes digital
For most people, history is just a jumble of dates – July 4, 1776, July 14, 1789, Nov. 22, 1963, April 4, 1968* - forgotten as soon as the test is over.Veterans war experiences live on through UCF oral-history project
After the land mine exploded, Richard Barber's right foot was gone. Moments earlier, Barber and two other soldiers had been riding in a jeep toward enemy lines on a bitterly cold day of the Korean War. The explosion killed the other men, but Barber was thrown out of the jeep and into a ravine. He might have bled to death had it not been for the cold.Collecting The Stories Of Local Vietnam Veterans
Rochester, N.Y. – Travis Piper sat down with two St. John Fisher College students to share his story of serving in the Vietnam War.Veterans memories documented for Library of Congress
The recruiting pitch is part of the Veterans History Project, a superpower-sized treasure trove of first-hand accounts from U.S. veterans. The collection, maintained by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., includes stories from about 78,000 veterans and is the nation's largest oral history project....
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