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Archivists assemble artifacts of war at Southwest Collection

 
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 2:27 am    Post subject: Archivists assemble artifacts of war at Southwest Collection Reply with quote

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/071105/loc_1196119.shtml

The most recent story about the Vietnam Center in Texas Tech

Archivists assemble artifacts of war at Southwest Collection
BY ELLIOTT BLACKBURN
AVALANCHE-JOURNAL


Far from the jungles, the politics and the killing fields of one of the most divisive conflicts in recent history, the leading repository for research on the Vietnam War is housed in a cool, temperature-controlled room in Lubbock.

There are rows and rows of acid-free boxes, filled with millions of documents, pictures and artifacts lining a special section of the Texas Tech Southwest Collections storage area.

Downstairs, archivists set up in an indoor loading dock catalog more boxes of information. There are manuals given to foreign service officers, brig logs from troop ships, and a new set of prized documents that chronicle the Vietnamese refugee experience. Nearby, more researchers work to publish as much of it as possible - more than 2.5 million pages worth so far - to the Internet.

"It's the place now where young scholars have to go if they're going to do any serious study about Vietnam," said Keith Taylor, a professor of Vietnamese history and literature at Cornell University. "There's nothing like it anywhere else."


The above text is less than a 1/4 of the article in the July 11, 2005 edition of the Lubbock AVALANCHE-JOURNAL.

The portion of the below of the article is very interesting since it concerns the POW/MIA issue and the Pentagon.

The military continues to use the Lubbock archive as well. Active duty officers have used the archive to research how South Vietnamese and American armies coordinated training during the war, looking for guidance on similar work with the Iraqi army today, Reckner said.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command use the digital archive to confirm details about veteran service or to assist the continuing search for soldiers who remain unaccounted for in Vietnam.

"They're certainly a valuable resource," said Larry Greer, a spokesman for the Pentagon's POW and Missing Personnel office. "Some cases would have been much, much more difficult to solve without them.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

here's a link


The Vietnam Project at Texas Tech
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