Robert W. “Bob” Patrick, Colonel, US Army (ret.)

Bob Patrick has been the director of the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress since 2006. VHP is a congressionally mandated effort to collect and preserve the wartime memories of America's veterans. Mr. Patrick manages all aspects of the Project and directs the building of a nationwide network of volunteer interviewers and organizations. He serves as the project’s chief spokesperson and has appeared across the country on its behalf. Mr. Patrick retired from the US Army as a Colonel in 1999; he spent more than five years in a leadership role with the National World War II Memorial Project at the American Battle Monuments Commission. He directed the Memorial’s historic dedication on May 29, 2004.