Empathy

Honoring Veterans through Portraits

By Jane Baker, posted on Sep 12, 2022

Who among us remembers the Forgotten War, as the Korean War is sometimes called? My high-school students might know of it from a history quiz or television special, but the significance of the war or why it was called “forgotten” is not relevant to their daily lives. It’s certainly not showing up in their stories on social media. For our fall portrait project, I decided to raise this topic with my advanced art and AP students.

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