I'm really happy to be able to upload three videos that I made of three veterans as a part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project. These men, who have had remarkably different experiences in the military, are veterans with stories that are very interesting. Don Elverd is a decorated Vietnam combat veteran who survived some horrific wounds; Bob Weiner is a veteran Army Air Corps pilot from World War II who saw service in occupation forces in Japan; Jack Zeipen is a veteran of the World War II European Theater campaign and has interesting stories of his support role for the war.
It was incredibly rewarding to be with these men. I tried to do them justice by creating edited movies of their stories, and I think it worked well. I have posted clips of brief segments from their full oral/video histories under "Current Projects." An interested reader could go to the Veterans History Project website to search for their stories there, but I think it'll take a few months for the full file to be available. So, stay tuned.
I have other veterans to record in the coming months and hope to have a nice collection of veteran histories of service for this website.
RPW
It was incredibly rewarding to be with these men. I tried to do them justice by creating edited movies of their stories, and I think it worked well. I have posted clips of brief segments from their full oral/video histories under "Current Projects." An interested reader could go to the Veterans History Project website to search for their stories there, but I think it'll take a few months for the full file to be available. So, stay tuned.
I have other veterans to record in the coming months and hope to have a nice collection of veteran histories of service for this website.
RPW