A group of Gulf Shores High School students that have been raising funds for a Vietnam Veterans memorial received permission to place the memorial at the Gulf Shores Museum. Several students gave a …
By Melanie LeCroy
Gulf Shores High School students are raising funds for a memorial dedicated to local Vietnam Veterans and they need the community’s help.
Advanced Placement History and Advanced Placement Language and Composition students are completing a cross-curricular project focused on the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Genocide. The project includes reading the nonfiction novel “First They Killed My Father,” studying Vietnam, writing essays, hosting guest speakers and planning a cross-curricular design project.
The students, moved by their studies, want to honor local Vietnam Veterans with a community art project for the cross-curricular design project. Turtle Tracks has provided a 4-foot-tall fiberglass sea turtle statue the students will design and decorate and a plaque to honor veterans.