Preserving their pasts: Students recording World War II stories

CHAMPAIGN – A handful of Champaign high school students are hearing firsthand about the experiences of soldiers and sailors in World War II.

They've heard how Dick Cogdal watched a ship full of ammunition explode in the South Pacific and felt the force of the blast even on shore. How he dealt with his loneliness while at war. How Dan Perrino and his fellow musicians turned a train car full of angry Japanese civilians into friends through music.

Also on this date

• Carle Clinic, state reach tentative deal in antitrust suit
• City takes step toward forcing action at downtown fire site
• Two children critically injured in Milford house fire
• House fire causes $13,000 in damages; no injuries reported
• Fire damages home in Villa Grove
• Champaign County Web site recognized for openness
• Savoy takes steps to grow westward
• Woman served rural poor in rural Douglas, Edgar counties
• Danville Gardens to stop offering poinsettias after this year
• Obituaries

» More