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Stories of Service: Dave Barton
Aug 10, 2008
 By Dispatch Staff

This spring, 165 Gilroy High School sophomores produced videos chronicling the lives of local World War II veterans.

These Stories of Service recount tales of being the target of kamikaze attacks, surviving a Holocaust camp, spending up to 45 days submerged in a submarine and much more.

For the films - which are generally narrated by the veteran - students worked in teams to get the veterans' stories, find photos and videos from the time period, assemble the information into a cohesive visual and auditory narrative, and turned them into DVDs.

The Dispatch is honoring these veterans and the work of these students by showing one of the 26 videos every Wednesday from today - the Wednesday before Memorial Day - to Nov. 12 - the day after Veterans Day.

In this Story of Service, Cornell-trained doctor Dave Barton speaks about his deployment to Germany - treating the people, being an occupying force and walking through an abandoned concentration camp.

Click on a date below to view a student-made movie about that week's veteran.

Or check out: a photo gallery of students talking with the veterans and making their films and a story about the filmmaking process.




Dispatch Staff
You can submit news items to City Editor Christopher Quirk by faxing them to 842-2206, mailing them to Gilroy Dispatch, 6400 Monterey Road, Gilroy, CA 95020, or e-mailing editor@garlic.com.

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