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michael
“I worked at the National World War II Museum in New
Orleans for six years. My crown jewel was this opportunity
to be in a documentary put on by the museum. I applied, but
didn’t think I was going to get it. I’d never been on camera
before. Hell, what do I know? I’m awkward. Shockingly, I
got it and I did it. I was the star, maybe not the star, but the
main student reporter of the National World War II Museum’s
75th Anniversary of D-Day Electronic Field Trip. I got to
go to England. I filmed in and around Portsmouth where
a lot of the planning for World War II happened. We took
a ferry across the English Channel to kind of mimic what
the soldiers went through as they crossed into Normandy.
There’s a lot of history in Normandy. Heck, at Pointe du Hoc,
you can see where it looks like the moon. Like the moon with
weeds! You can see where the American and Allied ships
would bombard the coast. Light bulb goes off in your head.
It’s one of those aha moments.”
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