The Veterans History Project, a Library of Congress program, has been working to catalog
veterans’ oral histories for 25 years. Unanimously founded by Congress in 2000, the VHP has
collected over 114,000 individual stories, becoming home to one of the largest such collections in the world.
 
My office has been actively involved in promoting this worthy undertaking, as well as
interviewing Natural State veterans, for more than a decade. This passion project stems in part from my own family’s experience, having realized we didn’t learn enough about my WWII
veteran father’s time serving our country while he was still around to share.
 
This is exactly what the VHP was established to correct. And I am pleased it is doing so with the help, enthusiasm and dedication of Arkansans.
 
I’m incredibly proud our team has been able to interview and submit the stories of more than 100 Arkansan veterans as well as train over 1,200 people to compile and document these riveting, revealing recollections.
 
In celebration of the quarter-century anniversary, my office partnered with the Library of
Congress directly this year, hosting some of its staff in our state to learn about our progress and train more Arkansans to participate.