First, allow me to thank Phil (Chapter 216 Vice President) for so generously sharing information about our project with all of you.  Since 1989, the Vietnam Center and Archive have been dedicated to collecting and preserving the history of our nation's Vietnam veterans with the honor and dignity it deserves.  Since then, we have grown into the largest non-Federal archive in the country with approximately 20 million pages of material.  This includes everything imaginable - documents, photos, slides, maps, films (8mm, super 8mm, 16mm), audio recordings (cassette and reel-t-reel), diaries, letters, equipment, weapons, and more. 

We also have the Virtual Vietnam Archive - the largest Vietnam War related online archive in the country.  We have more than 2.6 million pages of material online and add about 25,000 new pages each month. Our oral history project records your history through interviews ensuring that your memories are preserved as a part of their historical record.  Lastly, for veterans who donate their collection materials to the Vietnam Archive, once we have digitized them, we will return copies on CDROM or DVD.

I hope you find this information helpful.  As Phil mentioned, you can learn more about us online at www.vietnam.ttu.edu.  Please let me know if you have any questions about what we do and if you would like to participate in our project to preserve the history of the Vietnam War.  We are truly honored to be working with our nation's Vietnam Veterans to preserve your history of service to our country.

Very best regards, Steve