Veterans History Project, Motion Picture and Recorded Sound Division and the Hebrew Language Table at the Library of Congress in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies, Johns Hopkins University present
Screening of the film HALLOWED GROUNDS WITH FILMMAKER GLENN MARCUS [cid:[email protected]]<http://interactive.wxxi.org/files/images/highlights/Hallowed_Grounds_St._Mihiel_American_Cemetery.JPG> Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014 at noon Library of Congress, Pickford Theater, Madison Building, 3rd Floor Many people are aware of the famous American military cemetery at Omaha Beach, Normandy, site of one of the D-Day landings in 1944. But few know there are twenty-one other American military cemeteries in eight different countries memorializing those who were not brought back to the U. S. after WW I and WW II. Some of the fallen profiled in the program are well known: poet Joyce Kilmer, bandleader Glenn Miller, five Sullivan Brothers and General George S. Patton. Many depicted were ordinary men and women caught up in the calamity of war. Hallowed Grounds is the first major documentary made about these remarkable shrines. The program takes the viewer to each of these meticulously maintained and art enhanced sites, describing battles where the dead fell, and hearing from visitors plus the locals who keep alive the memory of the sacrifices. A production of New Voyage Communications in Washington, DC, it was directed by Emmy Award winner Robert Uth; produced and written by Robert Uth and Glenn Marcus and narrated by Peter Thomas, a veteran of both the Normandy landings and the Battle of the Bulge. EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC For more information contact: Gail Shirazi 202-707-9897, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Galina [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ADA accommodations 5 days in advance 202-707-6362 TTY or [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Hallowed Grounds Film.doc
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