The Veterans History Project (VHP) is a volunteer oral history project initiated by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress to establish an online archive of veteran interviews. The project collects and records experiences of American veterans from all wars. The veterans receive a copy of their testimony and it is then sent to the Library of Congress and the New Mexico Veterans Memorial.
We administer the program in the Albuquerque area. To date we have conducted more than 450 interviews.
If you are interested in this project, we offer the following volunteer opportunities:
- Interviewers: we will train OASIS members to interview veterans. Interviews are usually conducted in the veteran's home and with digital recorders. The commitment is 4-8 hours a month after the initial training.
- Quality Assurance Coordinator: to oversee the paperwork related to the interview, and to send the completed interviews to the veteran, the NM Veterans Memorial in Albuquerque, and the Library of Congress. The commitment is approximately 4-8 hours a month.
- Veterans from the following eras who are interested in being interviewed: WW II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and Afganistan/Iraq wars.
If you are interested, please contact Jim Tritten, OASIS Veterans History Project Coordinator at jimtritten@comcast.net or 505-453-6795.