Johnson Group (Firm)
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
War. The home front. The costs of service to one's country and the ongoing human phenomenon of armed conflict. Explore these universal issues through the eyes of one small Virginia town and the 'boys' of its National Guard unit who 'laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom' as the first to land on D-Day in 1944. Sixty years later, echoes of the past travel with the young, fresh-faced members of that same unit, from the same families and...
2) Paper clips
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper...