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... I ... in my looks like ... the cabinet session with me or ... I have an obsession with history ... seven years a school teacher Tom Clarke ... the sheer his obsession with the students that leads them to high school in Saint John Indiana ... new artificial research are ... you not only ... the Nevada see what is going ... you might need to ... it was like the old one of a kind project ... generation has declared students ... tracked down the families of Indiana forget ... repeated an archive of the mementos ... to matters ... the stories of loved ones lost in combat ... lives lived in the ... Mr. Clark who in his fifties listed in the National Guard and served a year in Afghanistan ... started to students looking for families of the sixteen hundred and twenty one Indiana residents killed in Vietnam ... recall the families could find a family suite ask permission ... to go walk talk to them ... they were very willing to help us out ... the initial idea was to help the students understand the human cost of war ... it was ... fifty eight thousand one hundred and forty two ... that's what the number you see for Vietnam calculates the student textbooks ... any body that would see that it's it's it's a number ... in in them wonderful are incredible ... Vietnam War Memorial ... which as fifty thousand names on it ... that's incredible bought ... what we're doing ... we're taking the numbers were taking the names were putting a face to the ... US ... at the beginning of each year the answers to these files with the names of Indiana boys lost their lives ... will wear to ... Korea ... Vietnam Iraq ... Afghanistan ... encourages students to use the internet ... government archive school yearbooks whatever they can find the lead them to the surviving parents ... siblings or children ... you are wonderful ... the result is a classroom full of memories ... collected over debt ... families from Indiana have given me ... there are ... a metals ... documents their uniforms ... I think the thing that's most precious that they've given me ... of the letters ... I have some cases ... the first letter they wrote ... always the last month ... the students to discover that the research helps families find peace ... especially those who lost loved ones and Vietnam ... an unpopular war in which veterans often got a cold shoulder home ... as I was growing up ... we really ... didn't talk much about my dad ... knew you would hear things ... aam you know how he down the road baby killer is when they came back ... so it was ... the sky like he just didn't mention that ... that wasn't something you know ... that you were meant to be proud of ... it has ... been this is Angie winger ... whose father Marine Sergeant Aaron Smith ... was killed in Vietnam when she was four years old ... this is a picture of my other ... parents ... my dad was a Marine ... he enlisted and ... Marines before I was even born ... it was nineteen sixty eight ... he was January twenty first when he was killed ... he added he was actually with this Foxhall a new iron ore now ... now ... green DVDs Mr. Clark and his students contacted Ms Waite has family back in the nineteen eighties ... that made me feel really good at ... it was actually somebody out there who ... you know Karen and why ... should know ... what had happened to me and still you know why to remember ... them now her only daughter Allison is one of Mr. Clark students ... ahead of the teachers ... people really need to understand the fact that I take it higher ... and you whenever you can find any information because it was more of the enemy ... to date ... become a lot of families ... on one thousand three hundred plus photographs ... of the sixteen hundred ... and of this monumental ... just watch them as such my students ... in its functioning ... I've that a Western artist as I was a row of of of the old high school experience at least until I've been ... my software was aware that led ... to calls and pinks ... he was an all star athlete ... actually I ... drafted to play in professional baseball ... I ... he also contracted to go to World War two ... the action ... but ... with a forty eight ... the May day ... Iranian engaged ... and and ... and then on her birthday ... there are in the ... timing of this ... year ... and ... secondly they they ... they age ... all was held in France so over the summer I went to track terrorists and the scarier this Memorial ... in St our flight France ... I've talked to think says ... ay ay fiance at the time and she told me that it's ... she went in to bring back the stone from France of history ... okay so basically iam ... what I wanted to show you why it's mine went to France I kind of late has kept ... a bunch of journals ... yes I know it's kind of like the deal was late ... I can't ... when I got back to that list resting place I decorated his two most towns ... and on top of the cost I pray Samsung's in the coronation of the Hyatt ... with the broken stone in the Senate ... I have the other half of this down and and I'm giving it a baggie when I return ... so that's kind of ... I wanna get back to now ... but yes I mean is this is ... coming and all the songs I collected ... by the lake for a way so you can kind of feel like ... you had been there you are part of it ... I got like ... this and what the sunny here I mean chance ... I just kept trying to cram into a package ... and the like red wine happening here in the other house is on his ... rain gas argue that due to rogue robot room ... see below its really un than he ... does indeed ... look like ... vv ... I DVD's view I'm very ... very distinctly remember him today and servers my mother sitting in a chair and do all the kids around my mother ... can ... this cast is sitting across from her and Mrs and my family members crying and upset ... and there were some of its Home vv boom that saw them and they won a turnaround ... you as you can see it was gone ... when I saw this office after the twenty one gun salute and they did this of course my attention want of that ... and they wanna turn around just like Qantas Air New ... and I was ... now my recollection of the IPO ... you you you ... I ... all all ... all I ... eighteen I ... and ... Clark ... identified itself as a ... teacher at Lake Central high school ... what I had always been told by my family was scarce various stories the mighty here country consistent story asks you to know ... what happened that day and he was killed ... he really wasn't on ... any information ... to Mr. Clark and his students they just ... opened up on another ... shore ... that ... I have never been open ... any that ... day when he did ... that this shows of all because I was a lot of work DVDs and livers ... five years that went by ... that and you know we heard all Eebee's metals said ... Boller head ... turns ... out we had never ... free State ... when Mr. part of me of the story of how my father received the Silver Star ... he was able to ... get me bulls Lance was you with our sum of our sliding Mdm the Seminoles what they've been down this time and has the burning of the Silver Star they've been mentioned for soldiers you were taken out you can ... I mean when they can ... analysts had been heeded ... I can and Mdm Toh one thing I've always thought about this ... no wonder those four soldiers as he pulled out of that bunker ... they made it out at home and it always wondered about that ... two of new ... DVDs ... for ... yes ... all ... FBI's ... huge ice ... I ... T B B ... two or three ... BdB BdB oh ... let ... me ... she ... this ... I ... I ... BdB is over ... oh ... she walks ... PFGBest for everyone ... I ... to be good ... I ... them into with Mr Mrs Newman Chen quince a very nerve wracking and there's the trends and never interviewed ... a family has recently lost and ... so on and on it in the military saying this ... I think all of us who we are less than kind to ... me you are really going on to talk about it but surprisingly they are all very Hoban with the discussions ... he told us so many stories about what he was lying ... and really brought him back to life and I and ... been ... the year before ... this ... I ... I ... the Archer family ... answer me because I was finally went in and ... so ... I can fall was one of the ... first one to start doing that Pachter and then ... I ... I ... I ... I see ... she ... I do not ... I ... when she takes it out the ... door ... I ... somebody else ... to talk about this on and the weather has been there either ... it's a very rewarding experience knowing that you ... are trying to help ... buying some family and be able ... to help them as well ... it ... isn't about us it's about the families and it's about the people who ... who died for the country ... their stories ... their lives ... why did they don't ... what did the junior ... gets more than just ... and number it's the it's like Wilkie St this is for you is somebody that we can serve this country ... that's why do it ...