shimojo organized an onlnline projecect. receieived vidideos notot from her former students, but students from local schools as well. one of those took part is anna miller, from maryland in the united states. anna has a japanese mother and an american father. she first learned abobout the battle of okinawaa in shimojs class. anna says the class had herer ththinking about her own place the worldld. >> it made me feel really gratefulul that i'm living in a time where there's not w world wawa going on. kindnd o of privileleged and i o use myy privilege to speak out against what's wrong. >> l listening to anna, shimomo realized the true volume of her class. >> i was a actually tearing, so thankk you. >> thanknk you for thinking of for this project.. >> if we don't teach t the past we cannot have a better understanding of the present society a and our life and move forward to a briright future. >> that message of peace and hope was shared by 111 people around the world on junee 2 23r the day okinanawa remembers the victims of the