Help Preserve Our Legacy through the Oral History Project
The history of the Army Medical Specialist Corps (AMSC) lives within your stories. To capture these vital narratives, we are partnering with the Library of Congress Veterans History Project (VHP) to collect, preserve, and archive the personal accounts of our corps members for future generations, researchers, and educators.
We look forward to hearing YOUR story!
How the Library of Congress VHP Works
Approved submissions are permanently archived at the Library of Congress. To meet VHP requirements, contributions must fulfill at least one of the 30-20-10 Rule criteria:
· 30 minutes: Minimum length for audio or video-recorded interviews, and/or
· 20 pages: Minimum length for unpublished memoirs, diaries, or journals, and/or
· 10 items: Minimum number of photographs, letters, maps, or 2D artwork.
Need Inspiration?
Search the Veterans History Project Database and review some stories. For a AMSC perspective check out the story of Aida Nancy Sanchez, 65B. LTC Sanchez was a Vietnam veteran who shared a powerful audio interview accompanied by 155 archived photographs. See below below for a couple names of other AMSC histories available to preview.
This is your Call to Action!
Your opportunity to reach out to a colleague OR
to be interviewed by a family member or friend and tell your story.
Remember: Your story is Specialist Corp History
Tips for Interviewers: "It’s about the “Interviewee”
1. Prior to serving as an interviewer, we recommend watching these 3 veteran Specialist Corps interviews to better understand the interview process and learn different styles of interviewing.
- Go to website: loc.gov/vets
- Hit Menu
- Click: Explore the Collections, scroll down, Click: Search the VHP Collections
- As Top Right see box This Collection, in the blank space type:
- Aida Nancy Sanchez, next click on name and hit search button/box beside her name. The page for Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Sanchez comes up. Here you will find pertinent information regarding her military career and everything that is included in her collection.
Other Specialist Corps personnel to explore: Sue Etta Cunningham and Chartley M. Morley
Review this detailed information about questions and setting: Interviewer Guide.pdf
Tips for the Interviewee:
Review the a list of suggested questions and identify the topics/questions you would like to discuss. Provide this list of identified questions to your interviewer. Question Guide for SP Interviewee to Select Topics.pdf
Have more questions OR want to be an interviewer or interviewee?
· Contact: Bonnie DeMars at memoircatcher@gmail.com
· More: Visit the Library of Congress Veterans Hx Program at www.loc.gov/vets