The Iowa Valley Community College District says it is entering into a collaborative effort with the office of Iowa Senator Joni Ernst to document and preserve the invaluable stories of veterans residing at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown.
Through the Veterans History Project, an initiative of the Library of Congress, these personal accounts of service and sacrifice will be captured on video and archived for future generations.
This project will provide a unique learning opportunity for students from Marshalltown Community College and Iowa Valley Grinnell. Students will conduct the interviews with the veterans, while students enrolled in Iowa Valley’s Digital Media courses will assist with the video production, gaining hands-on experience in documentary filmmaking and oral history preservation.
The interviews will be conducted at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown over the coming weeks, and the completed videos will then be submitted to the Library of Congress for inclusion in the VHP archive.
