Veteran's Voices is an exciting inter-generational program that teaches young people valuable 21st century job skills and the importance of service to community, volunteerism, and civic engagement.

Working with adult mentors, youth producers interview veterans for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, and use computers to combine the veteran's words with images and music, creating short digital stories that are shared with schools, libraries and museums, including the Smithsonian Institute, and with a global audience over the Internet

Veteran's Voices brings together the power of technology and youth volunteerism to record, preserve and share our historical legacy, passing on priceless lessons about courage, sacrifice and service to future generations.

Veteran's Voices (then called Stories of Service) was first launched in the Central Valley during summer 2003. Since that time, we have assisted local Stories of Service program sites to launch across the state of California (10 sites), Michigan, and Minnesota. The Digital Clubhouse Network has made the program available to educators and youth across the country via a full-scale national roll-out, and sample digital stories and free downloadable curriculum can be viewed via the national website at www.stories-of-service.org.

To get more information about the Veteran's Voices project contact:

Fresno Region

Ernesto Guevara

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