WASHINGTON DC (November 6, 2019) — Senator Charles "Chuck" Grassley will be hosting a Library of Congress “Veterans History Project” event in honor of Veterans Day for the second year in a row. The event will take place on November 8, 2019, from 9AM–4PM CT at the Iowa Veterans Home (1301 Summit St) in Marshalltown. Sen Grassley will be present to award a veteran service medal at 3:15PM CT and to host a short presentation.
“Iowa has a rich history of service members fighting on behalf of our country. This is an opportunity for Iowa’s veterans to tell their stories and document their contributions to American history for future generations,” Sen Grassley said.
The Veterans History Project collects and makes accessible firsthand interviews and narratives of United States military veterans from World War I through the present. Sen Grassley invites Iowa’s veterans to contribute by participating in a 30-minute to an hour-long taped interview about their service in the military. The interviews will then be made available through the Library of Congress. For more information on the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project, visit http://www.loc.gov/vets.
To learn more about this project, please call Sen Grassley’s Veterans Fellow, Dave Allen, at 515-288-1145 or email him at VeteransFellow_Grassley@grassley.senate.gov.
