TOCCOA, Ga. (97.1 FM TALK) - A teacher from Missouri has become one of the best history content creators in the country. His recent short documentary is of a massive effort to clean graffiti off a World War II historical site made famous in the HBO documentary "Band of Brothers."
J.D. Huitt, a history teacher at Bourbon High School, led a group of people to wash the rocks of Currahee Mountain in Toccoa, Georgia earlier this summer. The video posted on his YouTube channel The History Underground – with more than 134,000 subscribers – has more than 94,000 views.
"Currahee Mountain is a special place," Huitt states. "Historically, it is where men from 4 different parachute infantry regiments trained in preparation to fight tyranny abroad in WWII. Among these were the men of Easy Company ... But over the years, the top of Currahee has been marred by vandals who have spray painted the rocks there."
This episode, which was shot during Memorial Day Weekend, was the 135th in Huitt's series. He says he's received a lot of special messages since posting the video.
One came from the son of a man who was in Easy Company:
Huitt says he plans to go back, knowing more vandalization is likely to occur.
"We're going back to Toccoa to right a wrong on the historic mountain of Currahee," he states.