Saving the story of World War II
Our buddy, Surae Chinn, at WUSA9 in DC 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;
You’ll find Heidi Abou-Ghaida, a West Springfield H.S. senior at the memorial on most weekends. She’s spent nearly a year on the project.
“I was in Mr. Percoco’s class and he can even tell you I wasn’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’t want to repeat history.”
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.
Category: Historical
Outstanding!
Indeed – well done. It’s always uplifting to discover that there are still people, even teachers, who care.
They don’t learn this shit in history class because history class is revisionist social agenda history instead. If it’s a victory for America/Americans it’s either ignored or the teachers figure out some way to intermingle the negatives into it portraying a narrative that it shouldn’t be celebrated.
I remember this libtard bitch history teacher I had in highschool. When she mentioned any conflicts involving the United States it was PTSD this PTSD that. LOOK AT THE BAD THINGS THE US HAS DONE. MILITARY BAD. It was such an injustice and portrayed service members, the service, and any victories our nation had in such a negative light.