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Legacy Project founder to speak, Dec. 5
Posted November 29, 2006; 06:04 p.m.
The founder and director of the Legacy Project, an initiative to
preserve wartime correspondence, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
5, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Andrew Carroll founded the Legacy Project in 1998. It is a volunteer
effort that encourages Americans to honor those who previously served
or currently serve in the military by seeking out and preserving
wartime correspondence.
Carroll's talk is titled "Behind the Lines: Letters Home." He is the
editor of "War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American
Wars," which features some 200 previously unpublished letters from the
Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam
War, the Gulf War and conflicts in Somalia and Bosnia.
Carroll also edited the best-selling "Letters of a Nation" and "In Our
Own Words." His most recent book, "Operation Homecoming: Iraq,
Afghanistan and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their
Families," is a compilation of short stories, letters, poems and
journal entries written by U.S. military personnel.
The event is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Woodrow Wilson Political Network.