Hudson County - Hoboken - Girl Scout Troop 12022 Debuts Documentary Celebrating Hoboken Heroes on Thurs., June 21, 6:30 pm, at Hoboken Historical Museum


Thursday, June 21 – Hudson County

Girl Scout Troop 12022 Debuts Documentary Celebrating Hoboken Heroes on Thurs., June 21, 6:30 pm, at Hoboken Historical Museum
Public screening to benefit local American Legion Post 107

Hoboken, NJ – Junior Girl Scout Troop 12022 of Hoboken invites the public to an unveiling of a new documentary they produced celebrating Hoboken Heroes. The film will be shown at the Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, on Thursday, June 21, at 6:30 p.m. Admission to the event is a donation to the American Legion Post 107, which is raising funds to build a new home for the post with 6 apartments for homeless veterans.

The film is a Bronze Award project the Junior Girl Scouts conceived as a way to celebrate local veterans and share their stories with the wider community. The 20-minute video was created over a 6-month period from reaching out to the American Legion Post to identify veterans who wanted to share their stories of service from World War II to today.

The stories they told were poignant, heart-warming, funny, and at moments, unsettling. Ultimately, the veterans talk honestly about their service and the memories they cherish from that time. The four veterans include Daniel Sudler, a US Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq; Mark Villamar, a US Army veteran who served in Vietnam; Rose Orozco, a civilian nurse who served with USAID in Vietnam; and Vincent Wassman, a WWII and Korean War Navy veteran. Their stories include:

·        Brief respites during long stints in the field

·        Living communistically, by sharing food, during a war against communism

·        Dodging bullets during the Tet Offensive and learning to do things the Vietnamese way

 ·        Traveling on a troop transport ship across the Atlantic through storms and torpedoes – and how Frank Sinatra was booed by soldiers for cutting ahead of a line of draftees for the Korean War

Caption: Vincent "Vinny" Wassman served in the U.S. Navy in WWII and the Korean War. He is shown with (from left to right) Caitlin Fung, Caitlyn Powell, and Sasha Golubchik.

Note: Copies of video and high-resolution photos are available on request.
Location: 1301 Hudson St, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

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