Provided by   Edwin Ortiz
OrtizE@FDVA.STATE.FL.US
05/27/2004

There are 19 million war veterans living in the United States today, but every day we lose 1,700 of them. Motivated by a desire to honor our nation's war veterans for their service and to collect their stories and experiences while they are still among us, the U.S. Congress created the Veterans History Project.

For more details, please visit:    http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/veterans.html