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Subscribe to me on YouTubeThanks to the National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) and the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), each veteran’s interview is being transcribed and posted to youtube.com. Youtube allows us to use its interactive transcript feature which automatically synchronizes video with transcript. With this feature, one can read the interview word for word while watching the video. This is a tremendous aid especially when a veteran is difficult to understand due to illness, a heavy accent, or a stroke. Additionally, not only our veterans with loss of hearing can watch the interview with closed caption, but researchers will now able to search the transcript for the topic in which they are interested and jump directly to that portion of the interview.
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The Mission of the VHP

 To Preserve, to Honor, to Educate

 

The national Veterans History Project was created in 2000, when the U.S. Congress voted unanimously to preserve and archive the oral histories of men and women who have served in any of our country’s wars or any civilian who supported the war effort in a significant way. The project, housed at the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., collects and preserves the taped interviews, photographs and documents of veterans from:

 

World War I (1914-1920)

World War II (1939-1946)

Korean War (1950-1955)

Vietnam War (1961-1975)

Persian Gulf War (1990-1995)

Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts (2001-present)

 

As an archive partner with the Library of Congress, Central Connecticut State University participates in the Veterans History Project by focusing on the oral histories of Connecticut’s residents. Photographs, military documents, field maps, journals, memories and letters are digitized and preserved, and videotaped interviews of Connecticut service members are conducted and archived. The vast amount of historical data collected is made available to veterans, students, scholars, and researchers via the internet at our website, www.ccsu.edu/vhp. All information is also preserved in the Library of Congress and at the CCSU Elihu Burrit Library.

 

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Help put faces to the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial!


National 'Call for Photos' campaign, which hopes to put faces to the 58,272 names memorialized on The Wall. The Center will have a Wall of Faces exhibit that will display all collected photographs.

In an attempt to ensure that 100 percent of Connecticut's fallen are remembered, the Veterans History Project at CCSU and the Connecticut Department of Veterans' Affairs are working with volunteers and teachers to collect photos and remembrances of any of Connecticut's 612 who do not have photos on VVMF's Virtual Wall. For more information about the effort or to submit a photo for the Wall of Faces exhibit, please contact Eileen Hurst at 860-832-2976 or hursteim@ccsu.edu or visit http://vvmf.org/thewall to learn how to submit a photograph.

CT Veterans at the Wall

Total Names Photos Collected 
 612  


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Collection of the Month

 

Our latest veteran of the month is Boua Tong Xiong.  Xiong served in the Special Guerrilla Unit (SGU) during the Vietnam War.  The SGU was established by the CIA in order to conduct operations in Laos against the North Vietnamese.  Boua Tong Xiong served in the SGU for 7 years and achieved the rank of First Lieutenant

Click here to hear his complete story, as well as view his online collection. 

 

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Phone contact: (860) 832-2976

Email: hursteim@ccsu.edu
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