At Lake Central High School, this sort of activity has become a major learning experience. Students at Lake Central wanted to find out about graduates of their high school who had served in Vietnam. They did the necessary research, and, with the help of veterans and their families, began to collect memorabilia and developed a display. Over a period of time, students at Lake Central have extended their project to include Vietnam veterans in all of Lake County. The Department of Veterans Affairs has helped them exhibit their display at the Indiana State House and at veterans' conferences.
Veterans living in our own communities are excellent resource persons.
In most Indiana counties, there is a County Veterans Service Officer, who can be reached through your County Court House information services. Contacts with veterans also might be made through the nearest American Legion chapter, National Guard Armory or Reserve Unit, or through other local veterans' service organizations. I was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Similar ceremonies had been held earlier in England and France where an unknown soldier was buried in each nation's highest place of honor, in England at Westminster Abbey and in France at the Arc de Triomphe. These memorials all took place on November 11 to mark the end of fighting in World War I at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918.