This being Veterans day, this recent release from GoFundMe seemed more than relevant.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 10, 2016 — Rishi Sharma, an 18-year-old from Agoura Hills, California, has started a GoFundMe campaign to help fund his dream to interview all living WWII veterans.
“My biggest heroes are the combat veterans of World War Two and I am on a mission to try and meet and in-depth film interview as many of these men before it is too late so that I can gain their knowledge and wisdom and also an appreciation for how good I have it,” said Sharma on his GoFundMe campaign page. “These men are my kindred spirits. I want them to know how grateful I am for they had to endure and I am trying to be an outlet for them to express their recollections and thoughts of their war days in a censor free environment.”
Sharma films the interviews and gives a DVD copy to the veterans. He is trying to do one interview a day and has deferred college to reach his goal.
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This could be interesting to watch!
Nice to see something like this, in light of the political protests by sore losers of that same generation.
One thing ain’t got nothin’ ta do wit’ th’other.
One of my regrets growing up in the late 70s/early 80s is not talking to all of the WWII vets in my family and friend’s families and hearing their stories.
Hell, I remember WWI vets in my neighborhood.
But I was too busy doing teen-ager things.
Rishi, I am trying to contact you. I have a wonderful man you could interview. He was on the last plane over the Pacific headed to drop a bomb when the war was declared over. He lives in Florida and has been in my life since I was 5 years old.
Go to tennessean.com and look for article on Morris Dennis. They just did a story on him and his remembrance of Normandy this past week and it is fascinating. Would be great if you could interview him.
Please contact me when you are in South Carolina. I would love for my dad to be interviewed. He turned 80 this past May.
Please let me know if you are planning to come to the state of Kansas.