land of the free because of the brave veterans day

In E Company, they were Richard Winters from Lancaster, Pa., Burton Christenson from Oakland, Calif., Forrest Guth from Fogelsville, Pa., John Eubanks from Hancock, Ga., Walter Gordon from Jackson, Miss., Floyd Talbert from Kokomo, Ind., Carwood Lipton from Huntington, W.V., Ronald Speirs from Boston, Lewis Nixon from New York City, dozens of others.Īnd Frank Mellet from Long Island, killed by a German sniper in January of 1945. Real people, our soldiers who serve, with real names. Only one was from the Old Army, only a few came from the National Guard or Reserves. One came from Harvard, one from Yale, a couple from UCLA. Some were desperately poor, others from the middle class. ~Lady Kay Land of the Free, Because of the Brave by Lady Kay is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.“They were farmers and coal miners, mountain men and sons of the Deep South. I hope this short lesson & activity will be useful to you in your classroom! They will also need access to a projector in order to share their presentations with their classmates. Students will need access to the Internet in order to read about the Medal of Honor recipients and to create their own PowerPoint presentations.

You will need access to a computer & projector in order to show the PowerPoint presentation to the class. Information on the Medal of Honor (2 slides) Student handout with directions to make their own presentation Students will appreciate the freedom they have even more as they learn some fascinating true stories of heroic actions by members of our military, many of whom lost their lives. You will be able to integrate Social Studies, technology, and Language Arts. You can choose to have students work independently, in pairs, or in small groups. The students will then choose a Medal of Honor recipient and create a brief PowerPoint presentation to share with the class. For Memorial Day, Veterans Day, or during/after a history unit, this is a lesson to introduce middle school students to the Congressional Medal of Honor and to teach them about one of its recent recipients.

Land of the free because of the brave veterans day