In 2000, Congress passed legislation which was eventually signed into law funding the Veterans History Project. The VHP chronicles an individuals military history, as a matter of record.
After nine years of a deadly and controversial war, the final U.S. troops have crossed the border into Kuwait early this morning, leaving Iraq behind. America had 239,000 men and women in uniform stationed in more than 500 bases sprinkled throughout Iraq at the peak of the war. Another 135,000 contractors were working in Iraq.