My father, James C. Hoke was a World War 2 veteran. He was 17 years old when he joined the U. S. Marine Corps and was sent to Guadalcanal. This is his story of how he killed the enemy Japanese soldier and captured the battlefield flag.
This project is the result of receiving a scholarship from the VFTLA/VME (Veterans in Film & TV, now the Veterans in Media & Entertainment.) to attend the Art of Visual Story Telling with Miles Watkins in West Hollywood during the summer of 2017. This was my first student film for the AVS. With training from the LACMA Veterans Make Movies program and the AVS, I can film interviews anywhere, do edits and create videos.
Sheryl Shaffer served in the Women's Army Corps from 1968 to 1971. She is retired from the CA Employment Development Department as a VetRep.
She produces Veterans Helping Veterans TV at the MidPen Media Center in Palo Alto, CA. She completed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Veterans Make Movies program and now does virtual interviews using video conferencing, i movie and i phone . Since October 2022, Sheryl travels with VetArt as a Documentarian and does interviews with Veteran Artists and uses her new iPhone 15 Pro to film.
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