USS West Virginia Survivor Setting Students Straight on Pear Harbor

From 2012 WJFW NBC NEWS "History Lives for Phillips Middle School Students."

Sylvester Puccio was a teenage pipefitter on the battleship USS West Virginia when it was torpedoed and sank at Pearl Harbor. His quick thinking made sure his shipmates had the opportunity to get off the ship when he fixed it so that the ship settled straight down instead of turning over like the USS Oklahoma.

Mr. Puccio is worried that today's students are getting the facts about the attack, but not the humanity of its history. He has the students write him, even though most are too young to have had a grandfather in World War II.

Students Getting Their History First Hand. --GreGen