January 15, 2015 (Thursday), 6:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, 800 17th Street, Silvis, Illinois, the Premiere of Fourth Wall Films' & WQPT-PBS' Letters Home to Hero Street. Q&A with the filmmakers, actors and others following the film. Light refreshments will be served.
January 16, 2015 (Friday), 7:00 p.m. the WQPT-PBS debut broadcast of Letters Home to Hero Street.
To Order Letters Home to Hero Street on DVD, click HERE!
Letters Home to Hero Street was made possible by a generous grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
Letters Home to Hero Street, a 30-minute documentary produced by Fourth Wall Films and WQPT-PBS, focuses on a young Mexican-American veteran's personal view of World War II, as told through the letters and V-Mail (Victory Mail) he sent home to his family on 2nd Street in Silvis, Illinois.
Frank Sandoval was just beginning a new job at the Rock Island Arsenal when he was drafted by the Army in 1942. He sent dozens of letters to family and friends during the two years he was in the service and the more than 100 letters that remain tell a story of one man's epic journey from Illinois to India.
Killed on the Irrawaddy River in Burma in June 1944, Frank becomes one of eight veterans of WWII and the Korean War killed in combat from the same block-and-a-half long street--more than any other street in America.
In memory of Frank Sandoval, Tony Pompa, Claro Soliz (Solis), Joseph Sandoval, Peter Masias, William Sandoval, Joseph Gomez and John Munos, 2nd Street was renamed Hero Street, USA.
Letters Home to Hero Street is dedicated to the Hero Street Eight.
Letters Home to Hero Street was made possible by a generous grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
Note: The feature-length documentary Hero Street by Fourth Wall Films is still in production.
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