Tri-C to Host Free Event Honoring Veterans.PARMA, Ohio -- Cuyahoga Community College will host "An Evening with Veterans, Families & Friends" on Friday, September 21 at 7 p.m. in the Western Campus Theatre. The event is part of the celebration for National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day, which is September 21. The free event will feature an intergenerational in·ter·gen·er·a·tion·al adj. Being or occurring between generations: "These social-insurance programs are intergenerational and all appreciation of service men and women, honoring U.S. veterans of yesterday and today. The evening will feature the documentary, "Barbed Wire barbed wire, wire composed of two zinc-coated steel strands twisted together and having barbs spaced regularly along them. The need for barbed wire arose in the 19th cent. Brotherhood," which documents the Prisoner of War PRISONER OF WAR. One who has been captured while fighting under the banner of some state. He is a prisoner, although never confined in a prison. 2. In modern times, prisoners are treated with more humanity than formerly; the individual captor has now no (P.O.W.) experience of World War II veterans. Students from a 1998 special topics course called "Barbed Wire History" were paired with former P.O.W.'s, and the result of those relationships and interviews are in the documentary video. Some former Barbed Wire History students will present their experiences about getting to know the former P.O.W.'s. and will reunite with their World War II veteran friends, many of whom will participate in the evening's activities. P.O.W.'s featured in the documentary include Maynard "Doc" Unger of Lakewood, State of Ohio Commander, American ex-Prisoner of War; Richard Francies of Shaker Heights, survivor of the Bataan Death March Bataan Death March (April 1942) Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi (101 km) to a in April 1942; and Alexander Jefferson of Detroit, Tuskegee Airman and P-51 fighter pilot. In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Blue, Battalion Commander, U.S. Army Recruiting Station, will introduce returned veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan during the evening. A reception will follow in the Theatre lobby at the conclusion of the program, and visitors can browse through several artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. from the Crile Archives Center for History Education that will be on display. The Western Campus Theatre and Crile Archives are located on Tri-C's Western Campus, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, Parma Parma, city, Italy Parma (pär`mä), city (1991 pop. 170,520), capital of Parma prov., in Emilia-Romagna, N Italy, on the Parma River and on the Aemilian Way. . For more information about the program, call (216) 987-5309. |
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