Veterans Project Generates Interest

The phone began figuratively ringing off the hook in the offices of the North Shore Senior Center after a feature article on the Veterans History Project appeared in a number of publications affiliated with the Pioneer Press.

Headlined "Project Gets Veterans Talking," the article, by staff writer Ken Goze, was largely based upon an extensive interview with NSSC volunteer interviewer Bob Romain, who noted that veterans often get quite emotional as they relate some of the gorier details of life on the World War II battlefield.

Audio clips of some of the interviews of veterans that have been archived by the U.S. Library of Congress can be retrieved from the library's web site.

Because of the demand generated by the article, the NSSC is currently training more volunteers to conduct interviews for the government project.

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