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...students from Captain Nathan Hale Middle School nearby Coventry was compiling a book about the state's residents killed in the Korean War, she gathered some memorabilia and went to talk to them.
"They asked me what effect the death had on me, being so young," she said. "They asked poignant questions and seemed to be really interested in the feelings and emotions."
For students, talking to people such as Gainey put human faces and real emotions behind the raw data. It also erased the generational divide as students realized many servicemen died when they were just a few years older than themselves.
"You hear the numbers of people who died, but you don't really think of the people themselves," said Abigail Rudnickas, an eighth-grader who worked on the project. "Then you see they did have hopes and dreams, all of them."
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