sentences:  A network of volunteers across the UK also tapes record veterans' memories for the Centre, and its collection now numbers in excess of 9000 lives.The Centre is used by researchers, students, school children, authors and members of the public studying for degrees, books or simply their family history.The Centre's mission is ""To collect and encourage access to the surviving testimony of men and women who lived through the years of the Second World War, and to ensure that different audiences share and learn from the personal recollections preserved in the collection"".