In honor of Veterans Day, we present a program exploring the service and sacrifice made by American service members, veterans, and families. Join us Thursday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the National Archives. We will be screening the documentary Profiles in Service: It Takes a Nation (28 min.). Then Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton (retired) will moderate a panel discussion. Guests include Deputy Assistant Secretary Junior Ortiz, Department of Labor; Col. Anthony M. Henderson, Special Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff for Warrior and Family Support; Cheryl Laaker Hall, COO, USO Metropolitan Washington; Sanja Batten, Department of Veterans Affairs; and Kristina Kaufmann, Executive Director, Code of Support Foundation. Presented in partnership with the Code of Support Foundation and Ironcutter Media. Image: President Truman attends Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This photo shows President Truman walking to the tomb., 05/30/1948
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In honor of Veterans Day, we present a program exploring the service and sacrifice made by American service members, veterans, and families. Join us Thursday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the National Archives.

We will be screening the documentary Profiles in Service: It Takes a Nation (28 min.). Then Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton (retired) will moderate a panel discussion.

Guests include Deputy Assistant Secretary Junior Ortiz, Department of Labor; Col. Anthony M. Henderson, Special Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff for Warrior and Family Support; Cheryl Laaker Hall, COO, USO Metropolitan Washington; Sanja Batten, Department of Veterans Affairs; and Kristina Kaufmann, Executive Director, Code of Support Foundation.

Presented in partnership with the Code of Support Foundation and Ironcutter Media.

Image: President Truman attends Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery and lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This photo shows President Truman walking to the tomb., 05/30/1948

Veterans Day originally began as Armistice Day, which celebrated the end of World War I. After World War II, the day was expanded “Veterans Day” to honor all veterans, not just the service members who died during the First World War. At the National Archives, we are proud to serve veterans through our work at the National Personnel Records Center. Veterans who need their service records for benefits can find help here. Families of veterans who have died may also ask for copies of service records for family history, military burial, and medal replacement. Image: Disabled veteran, ca. 1943, ARC 195917, FDR Library
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Veterans Day originally began as Armistice Day, which celebrated the end of World War I. After World War II, the day was expanded “Veterans Day” to honor all veterans, not just the service members who died during the First World War.

At the National Archives, we are proud to serve veterans through our work at the National Personnel Records Center. Veterans who need their service records for benefits can find help here.

Families of veterans who have died may also ask for copies of service records for family history, military burial, and medal replacement.

Image: Disabled veteran, ca. 1943, ARC 195917, FDR Library

If you, like Buster Keaton, have served in the military, your personnel file is held at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. More than 34 million files are held in this new facility, filling 2.3 million cubic feet of records on 385,000 shelves. There are 6.2 billion feet of paper in the military records alone. This picture shows the building under construction in 2011. The shelves that are being installed are 29 feet high. About 600 full-time staff work in St. Louis. In 2011, the NPRC received 1,093,522 written requests for records, about 3,000 requests per day. Read more about this incredible building and the work our NPRC staff do for veterans: http://go.usa.gov/YbeH
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If you, like Buster Keaton, have served in the military, your personnel file is held at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. More than 34 million files are held in this new facility, filling 2.3 million cubic feet of records on 385,000 shelves. There are 6.2 billion feet of paper in the military records alone.

This picture shows the building under construction in 2011. The shelves that are being installed are 29 feet high.

About 600 full-time staff work in St. Louis. In 2011, the NPRC received 1,093,522 written requests for records, about 3,000 requests per day.

Read more about this incredible building and the work our NPRC staff do for veterans: http://go.usa.gov/YbeH

Just 5 days until the release of the 1940 Census! “For the first time, the census did not ask if a person served in the Civil War. Veterans (columns 39–41) were asked if they served in the World War, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Boxer Rebellion and if in a Regular Establishment (Army, Navy, or Marine Corps), peacetime service only, or another war or expedition. The wife, widow, or under 18-year-old child of a veteran was also required to answer the questions.” However, it’s possible that Civil War veterans might have been enumerated in the 1940 Census. This photograph of Union and Confederate veterans at Gettysburg was taken in 1938, just 2 years before the 1940 count. Find out what else is new about the 1940 Census in this Prologue article.
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Just 5 days until the release of the 1940 Census!

“For the first time, the census did not ask if a person served in the Civil War. Veterans (columns 39–41) were asked if they served in the World War, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, or Boxer Rebellion and if in a Regular Establishment (Army, Navy, or Marine Corps), peacetime service only, or another war or expedition. The wife, widow, or under 18-year-old child of a veteran was also required to answer the questions.”

However, it’s possible that Civil War veterans might have been enumerated in the 1940 Census. This photograph of Union and Confederate veterans at Gettysburg was taken in 1938, just 2 years before the 1940 count.

Find out what else is new about the 1940 Census in this Prologue article.

Source: research.archives.gov