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I am an 8th Grader LREI. I am a part of Social Justice group called "Fighters for Fighters," and our goal is to help homeless and troubled Veterans. We want to help the people who fought our freedom and now they need our help. I am intrested in this topic because they fought for our country and deserve to have their rights fulfilled.

Interview with writer Patricia McCormick

On Tuesday January 20, we were luckily enough to meet with the award winning Author Patricia McCormick. She is an author of many books such as, Sold, Cut, Never Fall Down, I am Malala, My Brother’s Keeper and many others, but the one that caught our eye was Purple Heart which is about a soldier…

Survey about veterans in Washington Square Park

On Thursday January 16. 2015, we gave people at Washington Square Park a survey on veterans to see if people realized the issues veterans face. Our survey had five questions. The first was “do you know one out four veterans is homeless.” The second one was “do you know every 65 seconds a veterans commits…

Interview With Dan Lohaus the Director of When I Came Home

On Wednesday 11/19/14 we were luckily enough to interview Dan Lohaus the director, producer, and cinematographer of the movie “When I Came Home” The movie won the Tribeca Film award Best New York Documentary. In his movie it showed a many different homeless veterans and what happened to them. You realized from the movie and…