{"id":123880,"date":"2019-04-25T14:45:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=123880"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T16:39:21","slug":"video-texas-teens-tribute-honors-vietnam-casualty-david-nash-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/25\/video-texas-teens-tribute-honors-vietnam-casualty-david-nash-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Texas teen’s Vietnam tribute honors memory of David Nash ’68"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now finishing her junior year at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, Annakate Kelley is looking ahead.<\/p>\n

Next year, she\u2019ll be vice president of the school\u2019s famed drill team, and her college search is ramping up, too. Having just returned from visits to 11 mid-Atlantic schools, she\u2019s at a familiar stage: \u201cI have no idea where I want to go,” she says.<\/p>\n

Kelley\u2019s future is calling, but in recent months she\u2019s also taken time to ponder the past. As part of an AP English project, she created a video tribute, based on her research, to the life and death of a beloved ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumnus, David Nash \u201968, who was killed in Vietnam in spring 1970.<\/p>\n

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ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ alumni killed in Vietnam<\/h6>\n

Four ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ graduates died in Vietnam: Robert Ahern \u201964 in 1969, Harry Mossman \u201965<\/a> in 1972, Charles Pfaffmann \u201967 in 1970, and David Nash \u201968 in 1970. Allan Jordan \u201965, who attended ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ briefly and later graduated from Union, was killed in 1968.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Along the way, she\u2019s made contact with a slew of Nash\u2019s friends from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, catalyzing an unexpected round of conversation and memory-sharing 50 years after his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnakate was able to tap into a store of knowledge and sentiment from 50 years ago, and she\u2019s done more to bring ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ people together around David\u2019s memory than she will ever realize,\u201d said Bruce Stangle \u201970. \u201cWe owe her a debt of gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Annakate Kelley, a junior at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, created this tribute video for her AP English class about David Nash ’68, killed in Vietnam in 1970.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n