MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT) -- A mid-state student will get a once in a lifetime opportunity this summer when he travels to France to study the World War II Normandy Invasion.
Clarksville Northeast High School student Scott Moore Jr. is one of 15 students nationwide to participate in a special study abroad program focusing on the Normandy Invasion.
Moore will travel to Washington D.C. to research an American veteran who died on the Normandy beaches in June, 1944.
“Then after we research them there, and make presentations about them, then we’ll actually travel to Normandy in France and walk the beaches of Normandy and get to learn all about it from actually being there.”
Moore will be accompanied on the trip by Clarksville teacher Whitney Joyner. The History Day program is sponsored in Tennessee by the office of the Secretary of State.