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The Library of Congress gained at least 20 new contributors to its Veterans History Project after a training session Saturday morning in Little Rock.

The Veterans History Project, which began in 2000, aims to preserve history by recruiting volunteers to interview peace and wartime veterans. The interviews are recorded to create an oral history for the Library of Congress.

U.S. Rep. French Hill's office organized Saturday's training at the Cox Creative Center. There will be another training in October, and Hill said that as long as he is in office, he wants to continue having a couple of sessions each year.

Hill, a Republican from Little Rock, said he would participate in October's training because he wants to conduct some interviews for the project. He wants to interview his father, who fought in World War II and in the Korean War.

"What better part of history to document than our veterans?" Hill said....

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