Two new primary source sets from the Library of Congress can bring your students face to face with American war veterans. Veterans' Stories: The Veterans History Project and Veterans' Stories: Struggles for Participation let veterans tell their stories firsthand through interviews, diaries, photographs, and drawings. All these items were collected by the Veterans History Project, and they're accompanied by teacher guides and analysis tools that make them easy to use in the classroom.
You can find these primary source sets and a teacher’s guide to analyzing oral histories at the following url’s:
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/veterans/
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/veterans/struggles.html
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/usingprimarysources/resources/Analyzing_Oral_Histories.pdf
