AN ORAL HISTORY & PRESERVATION PROJECT • VIETNAM 1965–1970
Preserving the Stories of Mike Company
A Common Virtue preserves the Vietnam history of Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, by connecting veteran interviews, photographs, maps, memorials, family memories, and official Marine Corps records into one growing educational archive.
Through these individual stories and historical sources, the project works to preserve the human experience behind the official record before it is lost.
Photo by: Chuck Traviolia
A Common Virtue is a fiscally sponsored project of Veterans Collaborative, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Hear Their Stories
Firsthand accounts are the starting point. Explore the Marines and Corpsmen whose memories help connect the people, places, photographs, and events of Mike Company's Vietnam history.
History is lived one person at a time.
A Common Virtue records the men who can still tell their stories while working to preserve and reconstruct the stories of those who are no longer here to tell them themselves. Interviews, photographs, maps, documents, memorial research, and family histories are continuing to be collected, digitized, researched, and connected.
There is a limited amount of time left to capture these memories. Once the veterans are gone, official records may remain—but the personal context behind photographs, letters, places, people, and events can become impossible to recover.
What We’re Building
A growing archive connecting the voices, photographs, places, people, and records of Mike Company’s Vietnam service.
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Oral Histories
Preserving first-hand veteran accounts
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Photographs & Letters
Digitizing personal materials with context
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Maps & Operations
Connecting stories to places and events
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Memorial Profiles
Remembering the fallen as people, not only names
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Marine Corps Records
Connecting personal memory with official history
Area of Operations
The places behind the stories
Explore the maps, photographs, operations, and locations connected to the memories preserved throughout the archive.
Help Preserve the Record
Do you have photographs, letters, documents, or memories connected to Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines? Your contribution may help identify a Marine, document a place, or restore the context behind an important piece of history.