American Veterans Center

The American Veterans Center is a non-profit educational organization and one of two programs of the American Studies Center. The mission of the American Veterans Center is "to preserve and promote the legacy of America’s servicemen and women of every generation".

The American Studies Center has funded numerous events and projects at the American Veterans Center such as; the National Memorial Day Parade, the Annual Veterans Day weekend conference and awards banquet, a quarterly publication (American Valor Quarterly), two different hour-long radio programs (Veterans Chronicles and Proudly We Hail), Wounded Warrior dinners and receptions for veterans recovering at Walter Reed and Bethesda Naval Hospitals, The Andrew J. Goodpaster Lecture, and the conducting of oral history interviews of veterans from all conflicts and archiving their self-published books and journals, photographs, maps, and supplies.

The American Veterans Center is an outgrowth of the World War II Veterans Committee which itself grew out of World War II Chronicles, a weekly radio series co-produced by Radio America (the other program of the American Studies Center) and the National Archives. The World War II Veterans Committee was founded in 1996, and was responsible for several activities and projects including an annual Chesty Puller Award and an Audie Murphy Award. The Committee’s motto was "From the Greatest Generation to the Latest Generation", and most of its activities focused on educating America's youth about the legacy of the World War II generation.

In 2005, the National Vietnam Veterans Committee was formed to pursue a parallel education mission for America's Vietnam veterans, and in 2006, both organizations were combined under the umbrella of the American Veterans Center, with the mission of honoring the service of all America's Veterans "From World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom," as well as active duty personnel. Since then, the American Veterans Center has seen significant growth and has produced and sponsored numerous events and panels including the 2008 rededication of "Trimble Field" at Yona, Guam, in honor of Jimmie Trimble (James Thimble III), a Marine who was killed during the Battle of Iwo Jima after he had served on Guam and played baseball there as a star pitcher for the 3rd Marine Division (in 1944, Guam became the baseball hub in the Pacific for morale building during the war):

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