{"id":4400,"date":"2013-11-08T14:01:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T19:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2021-10-04T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:04:10","slug":"veterans-history-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/2013\/11\/08\/veterans-history-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans History Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/11\/Veteran_110813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4406\" alt=\"Veteran_110813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/11\/Veteran_110813-227x300.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Preserving Stories of Service for Future Generations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Established by Congress in 2000, this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/vets\/vets-home.html\"> national project<\/a> collects first-hand accounts of men and women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, during the\u00a0 WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf Wars, and Afghanistan and Iraq Conflicts. It includes recorded interviews, letters, diaries, maps, and photographs from those whose experiences happened both on the battlefield and on the home front.<\/p>\n<p>These materials are preserved and presented through the Library of Congress\/American Folklife Center, and include a comprehensive, searchable, and digitized <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/diglib\/vhp\/html\/search\/search.html\">national catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are needed to interview war veterans, transcribe recordings, and identify documents to donate.\u00a0 You could have a grandparent or parent\u00a0 who you might want to interview, and have\u00a0 preserved in this collection.\u00a0 Go to the website to see<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/vets\/kit.html\"> how to participate<\/a> in this project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preserving Stories of Service for Future Generations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":4406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library","category-news-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}