BLReed
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2009
- Messages
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"As members of the Normandy Academy, a pilot program created by the National World War II Museum and National History Day, each of the students—six boys and six girls—had spent the past few months studying the war and learning about a soldier from the same state who was killed on D-day.
These teenagers, for the most part, were history buffs who knew exactly where their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had served and their ranks.
More of the article:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/04/how-normandy-lessons-came-alive-for-12-lucky-teens/?intcmp=HPBucket
More about the Normandy Academy:
http://normandyacademy.org/
"The Normandy Academy — D-Day: Stories of Service and Sacrifice is a partner program between The National WWII Museum and National History Day that provides high school students the opportunity to study an individual serviceman, from their respective home states, who made the ultimate sacrifice during the Normandy campaign. This program combines assigned reading for the student prior to the program's commencement, an in-depth research project supervised by mentors on-site at the Museum in New Orleans, a professionally guided field study in Normandy, all of which culminates in each student presenting an original, publicly read eulogy at his/her serviceman's grave in the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach."
These teenagers, for the most part, were history buffs who knew exactly where their grandfathers and great-grandfathers had served and their ranks.
More of the article:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/04/how-normandy-lessons-came-alive-for-12-lucky-teens/?intcmp=HPBucket
More about the Normandy Academy:
http://normandyacademy.org/
"The Normandy Academy — D-Day: Stories of Service and Sacrifice is a partner program between The National WWII Museum and National History Day that provides high school students the opportunity to study an individual serviceman, from their respective home states, who made the ultimate sacrifice during the Normandy campaign. This program combines assigned reading for the student prior to the program's commencement, an in-depth research project supervised by mentors on-site at the Museum in New Orleans, a professionally guided field study in Normandy, all of which culminates in each student presenting an original, publicly read eulogy at his/her serviceman's grave in the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach."