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Daily News Lesson June 06 2022

Student voice: One soldier's life gives perspective to sacrifice of D-Day

“How do you give a eulogy for someone you never met?” I picked a Polish immigrant as my silent hero. He was a true stranger at first, but he had a story and I was going to find it.

World War II veterans and Pearl Harbor survivors Seelie, and "Chick" Gallela attend an annual Memorial Day commemoration ceremony in New York

Post December 07 2017

"A date which will live in infamy": Pearl Harbor remembered — Class Discussion

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Lesson Plan May 27 2016

Historic Presidential Visit to Hiroshima

President Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, seven decades after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Have your students learn more about this historic visit by watching videos and researching images of the Hiroshima bombing then and now.

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Post September 03 2015

Remembering Japan's surrender to Allied forces — Class Activity

Seventy years ago, Japan formally surrendered World War II aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Ja…

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Daily Video July 28 2015

Fallen WWII soldiers teach students about sacrifice

In the more than 70 years since allied soldiers stormed the beach at Normandy, firsthand accounts of the lives lost that day are slipping away.

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