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Veterans History Project Service Summary:

  • War or Conflict: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
  • Branch of Service: Army
  • Unit of Service: Company B, 2nd Battalion (Mechanized), 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
  • Location of Service: IV Corps, Vietnam; United States
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant

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"I didn’t want to be in Germany when there was a war going on in Vietnam." (Interview) Vietnam.”

Chuck Hagel, Nebraska's senior U.S. Senator, served in Vietnam with his brother Tom in 1968. During the worst year of the war, they walked side by side as infantry squad leaders with the U.S. Army's 9th Infantry Division. Senator Hagel's poignant descriptions of the "War with no rules" invite us to smell the jungle, feel the heat, and experience the sheer terror of the night. For his extreme courage, Hagel earned many honors, including two Purple Hearts.

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About this Item

Title

  • Charles Timothy Hagel Collection

Names

  • Veterans History Project
  • Hagel, Charles Timothy
  • David Taylor
  • Library of Congress
  • Perry, Edwin

State of Birth

  • NE

Home State

  • VA

Headings

  • -  Hagel, Charles Timothy
  • -  Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal Narratives
  • -  United States. Army.

Repository

  • Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Gender

  • Male

Status

  • Veteran

Service History

  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975

    • Branch of Service: Army
    • Unit of Service: Company B, 2nd Battalion (Mechanized), 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division
    • Location of Service: IV Corps, Vietnam; United States
    • Highest Rank: Sergeant
    • Dates of Service: 1967-1968
    • Entrance into Service: Enlisted
    • Military Status: Veteran
    • Service History Note: The veteran served with his brother Tom in the Mekong River Delta. He was in Vietnam from 12/1967 to 12/1968 serving as an infantryman and squad leader. He served as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009.

Materials

  • Video: VHS [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/14/2002)
  • Audio: DAT [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/2002)
  • Manuscript: Mixed (Multiple types of manuscripts) [5 items] -- (collected unknown)
  • Manuscript: Correspondence [1 item] -- Typewritten document (collected 2002)
  • Manuscript: Unit histories [1 item] -- (collected unknown)
  • Manuscript: Mixed (Multiple types of manuscripts) [1 item] -- (collected unknown)
  • Photograph: Mixed (Multiple types of photographs) [14 items] -- Photograph (collected unknown)
  • Video: VHS [1 item] -- Television broadcast (collected 11/11/1999)
  • Video: Betacam Oxide [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/14/2002)
  • Computer File: Floppy Disk [1 item] -- Electronic file of manuscript (collected 08/14/2002)
  • Video: VHS [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/26/2002)
  • Video: Betacam SP [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/26/2002)
  • Video: Digital Betacam [1 item] -- Digitized Copy (collected 08/26/2002)
  • Audio: CD [0 item] -- Reference copy (collected 08/2002)
  • Video: Betacam SP [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/26/2002)
  • Video: Digital Betacam [2 items] -- Digitized Copy (collected 08/26/2002)
  • Manuscript: Transcript [1 item] -- Transcription of audio recording (collected unknown)
  • Audio: DAT [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/2002)
  • Audio: DAT [1 item] -- Oral history interview (collected 08/2002)
  • Video: DVD [1 item] -- Reference copy (collected 08/14/2002)
  • Video: DVD [1 item] -- Reference copy (collected 08/26/2002)
  • Video: DVD [1 item] -- Television broadcast (collected 11/11/1999)

Collection Number

  • AFC/2001/001/2230

Cite as

  • Charles Timothy Hagel Collection (AFC/2001/001/2230), Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Online Format

  • image
  • online text
  • video

Additional Metadata Formats

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Rights & Access

Using VHP Material in Publication or Exhibition

The Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress collects, preserves and makes accessible the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans who served from World War I through more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions, so that future generations may hear directly from veterans and better understand what they saw, did and felt during their service. The Veterans History Project Collection includes oral histories along with documentary materials such as original letters, diaries, photographs, and memoirs.

Veterans and interviewers contribute these materials to the Library for scholarly and educational purposes, retaining any copyright they may hold. Therefore, permission must be obtained before using the interview or other materials in exhibition or publication. Researchers or others who would like to make further use of these materials should contact the Veterans History Project for assistance.

As a publicly supported institution, the Library generally does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot give or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute material in its collections. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item from the Library’s collections and for securing any necessary permissions rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Please contact us with questions.

Obtaining Copies of VHP Materials

In order for VHP materials to be duplicated, we must receive written permission from the interviewee for you to obtain a copy of the recording unless the proposed use is limited to personal use, research, or other uses permissible by copyright law. If the interviewee is deceased, their next-of-kin may grant written permission.

Please contact VHP for assistance if you need to contact a veteran for permission to use their materials in exhibition or publication, or if you have received permission from the veteran and need access to high-resolution copies of VHP collection materials.

Citing VHP Materials

Please use the following formats when citing Veterans History Project materials (substituting the appropriate name and collection ID number).

Materials as a whole:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Manuscript material:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Memoirs (MS02), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Transcript (MS04), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Correspondence (MS01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Recording:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Audio recording (SR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Video recording (MV01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Photograph:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH01), photographer unknown, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Photographs (PH03-PH14), Ralph Williams photographer, Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Computer file:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Computer file (CF01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Artifact:

  • John P. Snodgrass (AFC 2001/001/xxxx), Artifact (AR01), Veterans History Project Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Veterans History Project, Charles Timothy Hagel, David Taylor, Library Of Congress, and Edwin Perry. Charles Timothy Hagel Collection. 1967. Personal Narrative. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.02230/.

APA citation style:

Veterans History Project, Hagel, C. T., David Taylor, Library Of Congress & Perry, E. (1967) Charles Timothy Hagel Collection. [Personal Narrative] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.02230/.

MLA citation style:

Veterans History Project, et al. Charles Timothy Hagel Collection. 1967. Personal Narrative. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc2001001.02230/>.