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Some P.E.I. high school students are headed off to Europe to learn the history of the Second World War in a very up close and personal way. Hannah Heyman and Ian Sharpe join Sheehan Desjardins of CBC News: Compass to tell us about the research they’ve been doing with local veterans to prepare them for the 18-day trip.
A group of students from Three Oaks Senior High School will be travelling to Europe later this month to commemorate Canadian veterans who served in Europe as part of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands.
And they’ve certainly done their homework.
Each student picked an Island soldier or veteran to research in order to prepare for the trip. Grade 12 student Ian Sharpe chose a relative who died in the Second World War.
“I had the privilege to do my project on my great-great-uncle, Pte. Lawrence Bulger, who was born and raised in Portage, P.E.I.,” …
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