South Range teacher to travel to Hawaii for Pearl Harbor study

By Amanda C. Davis

CANFIELD – Paul Lindstrom has been to all 48 states in the continental U.S., and that’s an asset for an American history teacher,.

In July, he’ll check off number 49 when he travels to Hawaii to visit the site of a great tragedy.

The South Range High School teacher is one of 80 educators in the country to be chosen by the East-West Center in Honolulu for a workshop on the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese Naval aircraft. The East-West Center is a research and education organization formed by Congress in 1960 to strengthen relations between the U.S., Asia and Pacific Islands.

The Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop is sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities, an independent grant-making agency of the federal government. The NEH is sponsoring two workshops on Pearl Harbor this summer, each for 40 educators.

There Lindstrom will study the impact of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack when Japanese warplanes drew the U.S. into World War II by bombing the Naval base, killing more than 2,300 and injuring more than 1,100 Americans.

His itinerary will include visits to attack sites including the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, where many bodies are entombed in the remnants of the battleship sunk during the attack. Lindstrom will also have an opportunity to meet with survivors of the attack, WW II-era residents and Japanese-Americans who spent time in internment camps during the war.

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