This Is Something I Like to See-- Part 2

Each member of the club is matched  with a local veteran.  They then interview, film and write the veteran's story.  Eight volumes are available now at http://www.veteransheritage.org/.

Hatch said that many of her students started with their grandfathers and altogether almost 500 have been interviewed.  These have become an addition to the Veterans History Project in Washington, DC, and the stories haver been archived and preserved in the Library of Congress.

Two of Barbara Hatch's students have been accepted into US military academies and one, Madi Pascale, became the youngest guardian in history to accompany a veteran on an Honor Flight to Washington, DC, to see the World War II Memorial.

Four other high schools in Arizina have adopted the VHP model which has become a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2010.  Hatch's next goal is to expand it through Arizona and nationally.

One of the veteran contributors to the project is Larry DeSanto, whose wife, Loralee DeSanto is a member of the Grand Canyon Chapter of the DAR.  The chapter nominated Hatch for the Mary Smith Lockwood Founders Medal for Education, which she accepted at the 120th DAR Continental Congress in 2011.

Like I Said, Something I Like to See.  -DaCoot