CONTRIBUTED TO THE LAFAYETTE SUN

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Auburn Class of 1983 James E. Patterson, VHS Class of 1973, saved a “lost” video archive about the Vietnam War. He was researching government archives in the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. When he could not locate an important archive, he contacted the Librarian of Congress. Patterson, from Valley, is a former U.S. diplomat and life member of the American Foreign Service Association. A library archivist explained: “It was on a legacy Library server that wasn’t fully copied over to a new server during a website update several years ago, so we had to do some digging.” The archivist added, “Thank you for bringing the missing video to our attention. Because of you, we’ll be able to restore it and serve it to future patr

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