The Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) is marking its twentieth anniversary by issuing a new :30 second TV broadcast Public Service Announcement (PSA) in English and Spanish. The PSA invites the public to use VHP’s online database full of veterans’ interviews, photos, letters, diaries and journals as a resource.

For the past two decades the Library of Congress Veterans History Project has had a mission: to collect the stories and original materials of U.S. veterans.

Now more than ever the stories of our veterans play an integral part in the preservation of our history and help educate future generations, because their stories are our stories.

Veterans History Project was created in 2000 by Congress as part of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. VHP’s mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the personal accounts of U.S. military veterans so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand the realities of war. VHP relies on volunteers to interview veterans to contribute to the permanent library collection by submitting audio and video interviews, as well as original photographs and correspondence. To learn more about the project and download the field kit visit www.loc.gov/vets