SCM Students Produced Videos in Recognition of Veterans Day

Students in Professor Thomas Franklin’s Multimedia News Production and Media Tech Toolkit classes produced a series of videos in recognition of Veterans Day. The project included profiles on US Military Veterans within the Montclair State University community, students and faculty. Seven of those profiles were published in the Montclarion in print and online.

Some students produced pieces of veterans from outside the university community. One of those projects was published on Wired Jersey. And a team of two students produced a video news feature on the campus flag-raising event on Wednesday.

The project was aided by special cooperation from the Montclair State University Student Veterans Association led by Franklin Montano. The SVA operates as a home base for veteran/military students and works to assist members with the transition to college life.

The history of Veteran’s Day goes back nearly 100 years.  In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

World War I officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”