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The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

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Spencer Bachus
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: December 28
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Birmingham
Alabama
Spencer Thomas Bachus III
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