Other conflicts or peacetime series, 1973-2011.
(Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material)

Arrangement: alphabetical by surname.

Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.

Disclaimer on Veterans History Project Collection Materials - (Historical Accuracy and Reliability in Personal Accounts): The Library of Congress and the Nashville Public Library does not verify the accuracy of the accounts described herein by participants in the Veterans History Project. Individual stories are voluntarily submitted to the Veterans History Project and are placed in the Library's permanent collections as received. These histories are the personal recollections and perspectives of participating individuals and are not intended as a substitute for an official record of the federal government or of military service.

Individuals documented in this series (as of August 2014) include: Judith Elizabeth (LeComte) Baker; Mary I. Bowers; Jeffrey Todd Boyd; Ira Edward Brewer; James Grady Cash, Jr.; Kathy K. (Creager) Cash; Larenzo Corleone; Lucien Hardy Farmer; Chris Scott Fieselman; Mary Katheryn Herron-Cole; Lee Andrew Hobgood; Vickie Lynn Howse; Samual Manard Johnson; Katherine Ann Skopik; Gregory D. Taylor; Larry Wilson.

Some interviews, beginning in the fall of 2003, were conducted with the assistance of Operation Stand Down, a local non-profit organization that assists veterans who are homeless, or who have been homeless. Interviews conducted through the cooperation of Operation Stand Down are so noted in the finding aid for oral histories.

In library use only. Available by appointment.

Scope and content: Materials in this series include interviews and items relating to individuals who served during peacetime or during periods of conflict other than those wars specified by the Library of Congress in their Veterans History Project. As a general rule, items for this series were not directly solicited, but rather were added to the project in the course of gathering materials and interviews for other segments. Note that individuals who served during one of the major conflicts will be listed within that series, even if their service was not in an active theatre of hostilities (e.g. service during the Vietnam War, but stationed in Germany). Those persons serving during a war, as well as before or after it, will only be listed with that war (e.g. a person who enlisted in the 1980s and served through the Persian Gulf War, will be listed with Persian Gulf War).

Persons in this series describe serving in the Women's Army Corps (WACs) in the late 1970s, stationed in Germany, and a description of a sexual assault while in the hospital at Walter Reed Medical Center (Bowers); service in the Navy aboard the USS Tuscaloosa during the 1980s, especially providing humanitarian relief to Bangladesh (Boyd); service in Korea in the Army in the early 1980s and working for a community newspaper for the homeless in 2011 (Fieselman); the impact the loss of a service connected disability check has had on one woman's life (Herron-Cole); service with the 101st Airborne Division in the Cold War during the 1980s and the difficulties of being a homeless veteran (Hobgood); experiences with the Cannon Air Force Base women's softball team in New Mexico (Howse); in the Air Force medical service in Turkey, Azores, and Greece during the 1970s and 1980s, as well as life as a military couple (Grady and Kathy Cash); service in the Army in Egypt during the time surrounding Anwar Sadat's assassination in the early 1980s (Corleone); service in the U.S. Coast Guard in the 1970s, and in particular testimony against a captain who was intoxicated and wrecked a ship carrying benzene near Galveston, Tex. (Farmer); experiences as a female soldier serving in support of the 10th Special Forces Group near Bad Toelz, Germany during the Cold War (Skopik); serving in South Korea and Germany in the Army in the 1980s (Taylor); and actions with the 82nd Airborne Division in Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada (Wilson).

Cite as: [name of individual, folder no.], Other Conflicts or Peacetime Series, Veterans History Project Collection, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library

Some items may be protected by copyright or donor restriction.

Numerous donors contributed to this project.

In English

Finding aid available in repository;,folder level control.,https://assets.library.nashville.org/documents/finding-aids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_VHP_Main_Other.pdf.

Finding aid: Interview summaries;,item level control.,https://assets.library.nashville.org/documents/finding-aids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_VHP_Summaries.pdf.

Finding aid: List of persons by special interest categories;,https://assets.library.nashville.org/documents/finding-aids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_VHP_Special_Interest.pdf.

Finding aid: Collection at a glance;,https://assets.library.nashville.org/documents/finding-aids/Special_Collections_Division_Finding_Aid_VHP_At_A_Glance.pdf.

Collected by the Nashville Room beginning January 2002.

Forms part of the Veterans History Project collection.

No further accruals are expected.