Coming to Youngstown in Time for Veterans Day
The Oath: The Michael Strank Story
The film will be shown and the filmmaker, Dusan Hudec, will be present
Saturday, November 10, 1:00 p.m.
After several days of bloody combat with the Japanese, six marines raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the Island of Iwo Jima. Sgt. Michael Strank, a native of the Rusyn village of Jarabina, Slovakia, was the leader of this detail. He died in combat a few days later when shrapnel from an artillery shell pierced his heart.
Strank embodies the idea of the Americans about a real soldier who sacrificed his life for the noblest causes with which many Americans identify: freedom and independence.- Location -
Auditorium
St. Matthias School
2800 Shady Run Road
Youngstown, Ohio