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AUGUSTA, Ga. — In Augusta the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the first of three Veterans Curation Project laboratories Oct. 19.
According to officials, the goal of the project, which is being funded by $3.5 million in Recovery Act Funds, is to provide disabled veterans jobs restoring and preserving the sizable collection of historic artifacts held by the Corps of Engineers.
Veterans like Leonard Marshall (pictured) have already received specialized training in computer, scanning and photographic technologies at the Augusta facility. Officials say those skills could be useful in jobs outside of the labs and Marshall agrees.
"Not only do you learn data management you learn work skills. You learn how to interact with other people. There are so many different things you can learn here that you can apply anywhere."
The Corp is working with the Department of Veterans Affairs and various Wounded Warrior groups to fill jobs at the Augusta lab as well as labs in St. Louis, MO and Washington, D.C.
Those facilities should be operational by the end of the 2010 fiscal year.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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