WWI Veterans Remember Their Service

CNN has an article (from Tuesday, November 11, 2003) about two men who are among fewer than 200 surviving U.S. veterans of the Great War out of 4.7 million who served. Please read it at: http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/11/11/veterans.remember.ap/

Before Veterans Day, there was Armistice Day, a commemoration of the cease-fire that ended World War I on November 11, 1918. What do the Veterans recall about this day? What are some of their other memories? Assess some of the hardships they faced in their service. Can you hypothesize from their accounts the sort of feelings that were felt about the war and Americans in general?

Ad Campaign Gone Wrong?

Two men were charged in connection with the advertising campaign that turned into a terror scare and sent the city of Boston into chaos. Read the article and view the video at: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2841646&page=1

After reading about this, how do you feel? Do you think these Boston pranksters are taking this too lightly or are law officials taking the stunt too seriously? Assess how this stunt could have been figured out much sooner? Criticize the connection between CNN and Turner's Cartoon Network. Hypothesize any future problems that might occur as a result of this stunt....