During the Vietnam War, an electrical malfunction blew up the USS Forrestal, an aircraft carrier. More than 130 crew members were killed.

Bob Kohler, a survivor of the explosion, a former Navy commander and the commander of American Legion Post 288 in Coinjock, N.C., shared his experiences with fourth grade students in a Skype Video call.

"We lost 134 brave men," he said. "The airplanes blew up, and there was no place to run from the fires. It was a terrible day, and I remember it very vividly," he told students,
according to a report by Toby Tate in the Daily Advance.

The program, which included a report from another veteran,was planned by Central Elementary teacher Lenora Kaska and Kathy Blades, the technical facilitator for Currituck County Schools.

"I wanted kids to have some idea of what Veterans Day is all about," she told the Advance. "We've been 'Skyping' with other schools in Ohio and in Jarvisburg, and we thought we could do it with vets, too."