Jeffrey A. Hinton

Students participating in the "Voices of Our Veterans" program at North West Career & Technical Academy will record, preserve and share oral histories and experiences of veterans from the Las Vegas area. Through this project, eleventh grade students learn about the challenges, contributions and sacrifices of local servicemen and women. Students will use digital recorders to record oral history interviews; they will then transcribe and catalog their interviews for the creation of a Web site that will contain histories of wars in which the veterans fought along with personal photographs and highlights of the recorded oral history interviews. Hinton intends to have students do more than just memorize names and dates. His goal is to spark a life-long love of history in students as they realize that history is about the lives of real people and not just words in a book. "Voices of Our Veterans" will help to acknowledge and remember local military heroes who have given so much and asked for so little in return. Hinton lives in Las Vegas.