Actor James Madio, known for his portrayal of Sgt. Frank Perconte in HBO's Emmy Award-winning series Band of Brothers and for his work in The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg and his role as one of the Lost Boys in Robin
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Actor James Madio, known for his portrayal of Sgt. Frank Perconte in HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series Band of Brothers and for his work in The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg and his role as one of the Lost Boys in Robin Williams’ classic Hook, will serve as the official host at the November 3 dedication of the new World War II Foundation Global Education Center in South Kingstown.
Other special guests at the reception include United States Navy first wave D-Day veterans Richard Fazzio of Woonsocket and Ernie Corvese of North Smithfield. Fazzio and Corvese will handle the official ribbon cutting ceremonies for the new education center.2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 landings in France. The dedication event begins at 2 p.m. on November 3 at the center’s 344 Main Street address in Wakefield.
The World War II Foundation Global Education Center will welcome school groups, educators, researchers and eventually, the public from around the United States and share with them,
especially the students, an overview of the personal stories of the WWII generation.
The education center will be very interactive and focused on preserving these stories so that future generations don’t forget the sacrifices of all those who served and survived WWII. It will also impart the hard lessons of war and its cost to society. The center will do this in several ways including: visually through the use of the 21 award-winning documentary films produced to date by the WWII Foundation/Tim Gray Media focused on the personal stories of WWII. All the films air globally on American Public Television and overseas networks
Additionally, hundreds of artifacts from the war itself will be on display. Several hundred World War II books in the center’s library will also serve as a learning resource and be available for
check-out by students. Audio of actual radio broadcasts during WWII will play throughout the center, enabling visitors to get a sense of the important world events happening during the time period 1939-1945.
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