Video: Students Perform U.S.O. Show

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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) – This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two.

Friday night some Tupelo home school students got a chance to relive a U.S.O. show as part of night of living history.

Parents and students dressed in vintage 1940’s outfits to watch the performance.

It was put on the Excelsior Classical Community, which is home school co-op group serving 85 Northeast Mississippi students.

“We wanted to give our a kids a little big of living history and teach them about World War Two and about the culture in that time and why the USO was formed and how important it was to the troops during that time,” organizer Laura McCoy.

The USO singers were brought to their performance in one of the vintage World War vehicles owned by Tony Lute, the curator of the Tupelo Veterans museum. He had many vintage artifacts from the war on display which contributed to the students living history experience.

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