Alabama High School Honors Fallen Service Members Every Day Using Social Media

By Michael Tomberlin

One Alabama high school is using social media to make every day Memorial Day.

The Auburn High School Veterans Project uses its popular Facebook Page to highlight a Vietnam War veteran from Alabama every day – either on that service member’s birthday or on the day of their death.

History teacher and the program’s director Blake Busbin said the Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress was the impetus to the class recording the histories of individual veterans in 2014. That grew into the AHS Veterans Project.

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