Here are two examples of school students interviewing local residents as part of their school curriculum. The first is American Studies Oral History Project 2011. Some of the interviews are with war veterans, even recent veterans from current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The second is a story about students in the American town of Hannibal who have funds from their town council to make a documentary film about the residents of their town – click here. We could do projects like this here and it would be good to find a way to encourage schools to undertake similar projects.