Recently, teacher Beth Doughty and a student from Chief Umtuch Middle School were featured on KOIN's "Veterans' Voices" segment. Watch starting at the 17:32-minute mark.
Last year, Doughty became the only Washington state educator selected to contribute to the National History Day Researching Silent Heroes project. The project engages educators in researching and sharing the untold stories of U.S. service members who died during World War I, World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War. The project also supports classroom learning by giving teachers strategies that they can pass on to help students gather and analyze sources, work with secondary research and draft compelling narratives that include multiple perspectives and are accurately cited.
Doughty collaborated with her students to select a service member to research. Together, they chose Staff Sergeant Clifford Henry Mast, a U.S. Air Force airman from Spokane, Washington, who served during the Korean War.