What started as a simple eighth-grade history project more than a year ago, now has Anthony Zendejas bringing to life painful stories of World War II through a dramatic representation in Washington, D.C...
Zendejas, now a freshman at Klahowya Secondary School, focused his project on the death march survivors of Camp Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. Although Zendejas began his research through books, it wasn’t until personally interviewing Ranger Capt. Robert Prince, who led the Jan. 30, 1945 raid to rescue 511 POWs, that the project took off...
Now, after fund-raising $4,000, Zendejas, his mother Margot and three of his siblings will make the trek to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 3, to perform his presentation in front of POWs and survivors for the reunion of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Association. Zendejas will return to Silverdale on April 17, after spending two weeks at the nation’s capitol...
(Central Kitsap Reporter) ...full story here
Photo By Jesse Beals
Zendejas, now a freshman at Klahowya Secondary School, focused his project on the death march survivors of Camp Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. Although Zendejas began his research through books, it wasn’t until personally interviewing Ranger Capt. Robert Prince, who led the Jan. 30, 1945 raid to rescue 511 POWs, that the project took off...
Now, after fund-raising $4,000, Zendejas, his mother Margot and three of his siblings will make the trek to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, April 3, to perform his presentation in front of POWs and survivors for the reunion of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Association. Zendejas will return to Silverdale on April 17, after spending two weeks at the nation’s capitol...
(Central Kitsap Reporter) ...full story here
Photo By Jesse Beals
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