The office of Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) will host a Library of Congress “Veterans History Project” event in honor of Veterans Day for the fourth year in a row. The event will take place on November 5, 2021, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. CT at the 185 Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City. Veterans being interviewed at this event served during World War II and the war in Vietnam.
“Iowa has a rich history of service members fighting on behalf of our country. This project provides a platform for Iowa’s veterans to tell their stories and document their contributions to American history for future generations,” Grassley said.
The Veterans History Project collects and makes accessible firsthand interviews and narratives of U.S. military veterans from World War I through the present. Grassley invites Iowa’s veterans to contribute by participating in a 30-minute to an hour-long taped interview about their service in the military. The interviews will then be made available through the Library of Congress. For more information on the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project, visit http://www.loc.gov/vets.
Interviews for this event have been set up in advance and all state and federal public health guidelines will be followed. In addition to Grassley’s staff, volunteers from Morningside University and Western Iowa Tech Community College will assist. To learn more about this project please call Grassley’s veterans fellow, Harrison Swift, at 515-288-1145 or email him at veteransfellow_grassley@grassley.senate.gov.
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