Veteran's History Project

Veterans History Project underway at Nathanael Greene Museum

      There are almost 19 million war veterans living in the United States today, but every day we lose over 1,500 of them.  Motivated by a desire to honor our nation’s war veterans for their service and to collect their stories and experiences while they are still among us, the Unites States Congress created the Veterans History Project.  Locally, an effort is underway to add our local veterans to this growing history project.  Several Veterans have already been interviewed for the Greeneville & Greene County Veteran’s History Project that is taking place at the Nathanael Greene Museum.  History has been unfolding in front of the youth and adult volunteers that are interviewing these Veterans from various tours of duty that span for World War II to the most current conflicts. 

    This project is a collaboration of the Boys & Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County, the Greene County Youth Council and the Nathanael Greene Museum.  Scott Bullington, Executive Director for the Boys & Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County is chairing this community project.  With many kids at the local Boys & Girls Club and the many youth that participate in the Youth Council program it was decided that this would be a great way for our communities youth to get involved with a tremendous learning experience that would benefit generations to come.  “The youth at our club are excited about the opportunity to meet those that fought for our freedom and learn more about our history” stated Bullington.  The project hopes to identify all living Veterans in Greeneville & Greene County and get a video recording of each interview to keep on file for the project.  When the project is completed, plans are to house all recordings and any war related items donated to this project at the Nathanael Greene Museum located in the old Andrew Johnson School Building.  A master copy will also be sent to the Library of Congress to include our local interviews in their master Veterans History Project.  Almost 30 veterans have been interviewed, but the project is still going.   The veterans that that participate in the interview process will receive a copy of their interview on dvd and also be invited to the Veterans History project luncheon.

     Knowing that this and future generations of Americans have much to learn from those who served, the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center have embraced this national effort.  Locally, Bullington stated, we are calling on all local Veterans to help with this community collaboration to preserve these important individual histories.  If you are a veteran, family member of a veteran or a volunteer that would like to work on this project you are asked to contact Scott Bullington, Cathy Byrd or Sangela Blue at the Boys & Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County at 787-9322 or 787-9334 or contact Kelly Burrell at the Greene County Partnership at 638-4111 for more information. The Nathanael Greene Museum is located at 101 West McKee Street and for more details on the museum contact Earl Fletcher at 636-1558.

Veteran's History Project

Underway at the Nathanael Greene Museum

     There are almost 19 million war veterans living in the United States today, but every day we lose over 1,500 of them. Motivated by a desire to honor our nation’s war veterans for their service and to collect their stories and experiences while they are still among us, the Unites States Congress created the Veterans History Project. Locally, an effort is underway to add our local veterans to this growing history project. Several Veterans have been interviewed over the last two weeks for the Greeneville & Greene County Veteran’s History Project that is taking place at the Nathanael Greene Museum. History has been unfolding in front of the youth and adult volunteers that are interviewing these Veterans from various tours of duty that span for World War II to the most current conflicts.

     This project is a collaboration of the Boys & Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County, the Greene County Youth Council, and the Nathanael Greene Museum. Scott Bullington, Executive Director for the Boys & Girls Club of Greeneville & Greene County is chairing this community project. With many kids at the local Boys & Girls Club and the many youth that participate in the Youth Council program it was decided that this would be a great way for our communities youth to get involved with a tremendous learning experience that would benefit generations to come. "The youth at our club are excited about the opportunity to meet those that fought for our freedom and learn more about our history" stated Bullington. The project hopes to identify all living Veterans in Greeneville & Greene County and get a video recording of each interview to keep on file for the project. When the project is completed, plans are to house all recordings and any war related items donated to this project at the Nathanael Greene Museum located in the old Andrew Johnson School Building. A master copy will also be sent to the Library of Congress to include our local interviews in their master Veterans History Project. Almost 30 veterans have been interviewed over the past two weeks, but the project is still going. We originally had hoped to wrap this up by Veterans Day, but each day we get another call from someone who talked to one of our participants and wants to be a part of our project" added Bullington. Plans have been made to have a dinner for the Veterans that participate in this year’s project at the conclusion of the interview process that has been extended to allow for more participants.

Cathy Osborne & Hallie Reagan With A US Veteran