{"id":35823,"date":"2013-05-26T14:26:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35823"},"modified":"2013-05-26T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:27:14","slug":"saving-the-story-of-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35823","title":{"rendered":"Saving the story of World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Surae Chinn, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/news\/article\/260770\/158\/Man-On-Mission-to-Document-all-Living-WWII-Vets\">WUSA9 in DC<\/a> did a great story that I caught on the news last night about a retired local teacher who has enlisted help of some of his former students to interview every living World War Two Veteran. So far, Jim Percoco, formerly of Springfield High School has influenced his students to talk to over 350 veterans so far;<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=2409998336001&#038;playerID=1685956553001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL9Hk~,mLC66bU8hPOBGO8BPO1coBAeF5n-gkxo&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=2409998336001&#038;playerID=1685956553001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL9Hk~,mLC66bU8hPOBGO8BPO1coBAeF5n-gkxo&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> You&#8217;ll find Heidi Abou-Ghaida, a West Springfield H.S. senior at the memorial on most weekends. She&#8217;s spent nearly a year on the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in Mr. Percoco&#8217;s class and he can even tell you I wasn&#8217;t interested in WWII or any of it. Once he asked me to be in this project. It just really opened my eyes. I thought this is bad because I need to know my history and we don&#8217;t want to repeat history.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Surae for reporting their story and thanks to Jim Percoco for teaching his students to care about the real history of this country and the people who have preserved this way of life for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Surae Chinn, at WUSA9 in DC did a great story that I caught on &hellip; <a title=\"Saving the story of World War II\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35823\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving the story of World War II<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}