{"id":21219,"date":"2012-02-29T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2012-02-29T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T11:41:57","slug":"latta-promotes-veterans-history-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/02\/29\/latta-promotes-veterans-history-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta promotes Veterans History Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Calling All Veterans: Participate in the Veterans History Project<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to preserve the stories of the nation\u2019s veterans, U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) is collaborating with the Library of Congress\u2019 Veterans History Project (VHP), a nationwide project to collect and preserve personal stories from America\u2019s war veterans and those American civilians who served in support of them.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the initiative to preserve America\u2019s history and heritage, Rep. Latta has interviewed in the past Walt Churchill, a former Marine who served in the Korean War and fought in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Marine Corps, \u201cat Chosin Reservoir, the 1st Marine Division found itself surrounded and outnumbered eight to one by the Chinese army. The worst weather in 50 years cut off air support and assaulted the Marines with snow, wind and temperatures of -40 degrees F.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is of the upmost importance to record the many stories of valor from the men and women who served our country for future generations to cherish,\u201d Latta said.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill\u2019s interview will be one of many interviews Congressman Latta will be adding over time to the VHP\u2019s archives.\u00a0To date, the VHP comprises over 68,000 individual collections that are available to researchers and the public at the Library of Congress. Of that number, more than 7,000 are digitized and are accessible online through the VHP\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/vets\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested veterans and families who would like to record their story or submit any original artifacts, pictures or letters to the archive can contact Congressman Latta\u2019s office at 800.541.6446. Additionally, veterans groups, schools and organizations that would like to become involved with the project can contact\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"mailto:socialmedia@mail.house.gov\">socialmedia@mail.house.gov<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Calling All Veterans: Participate in the Veterans History Project In an effort to preserve the stories of the nation\u2019s veterans, U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) is collaborating with the Library of Congress\u2019 Veterans History Project (VHP), a nationwide project to collect and preserve personal stories from America\u2019s war veterans and those American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 01:31:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}