The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Since 1992 Bachus has been re-elected nine times without anything resembling serious opposition. Ed Royce (R-CA) and immediately following the 2010 general election Bachus told the South Shelby (Ala. 5 million outspending Beason 45-1.

Representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district serving since 1993. He is a member of the Republican Party and the senior member of the Alabama U.