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To: Robert Scott who wrote (8457)	10/5/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: MangoBoy	Respond to of 12468

[WinStar to Build Interactive Memorial Wall as Part of Vietnam Veterans Education Initiative] WinStar Using the Internet and Its Wireless Fiber(SM) Broadband Network To Provide Educational Programs, Including the New Interactive Wall WASHINGTON, D.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--WinStar Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:WCII) and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) today launched an interactive educational initiative to bring information about the Vietnam War and its veterans to students and others throughout the world. As part of the initiative, WinStar is using its expertise in developing Internet based teaching programs that make use of its advanced broadband network to build a Web site that will include remembrances of the men and women who served in Vietnam. This "interactive Wall," based on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., will also include informational materials on the War and will allow students to participate in live chats and online forums with veterans and with students in Vietnam. The Web site is expected to become the single largest depository of oral history about individual Vietnam veterans. Users will be able to scroll to a veteran's name as it appears on the Memorial Wall and then click to hear the audio remembrances. WinStar is a facilities-based national local telecommunication and information services company that provides high speed broadband Wireless Fiber(SM) service over its own network. In addition to providing local and long distance phone services and high speed data, Internet access and information services through this network, it offers its customers practical applications for this sophisticated broadband technology. The Vietnam Memorial Web site, which is such an application, will be produced by the company's WinStar for Education unit. WinStar for Education provides schools with Internet connectivity using WinStar's Wireless Fiber services as well as Internet based educational tools and programs that help teachers understand how to make full use of advanced broadband telecommunications services in the classroom. "WinStar is committed to using its Wireless Fiber service to make people's lives more productive and rewarding," said Nathan Kantor, WinStar's President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the VVMF's Corporate Council. "Educational institutions represent an important and growing market opportunity for us because schools need advanced broadband telecommunications services such as our wireless Fiber service to make full use of the information superhighway. We are proud that we can use our expertise in the education market to help students learn about the Vietnam War and to honor the memory of the veterans who fought it. This project is a perfect example of how the innovative use of broadband telecommunication technology can bring together people of differing backgrounds and help them learn from each other," continued Kantor, who is also a Vietnam era veteran, West Point graduate and advocate of education. "We're very excited about WinStar's involvement in these innovative educational initiatives," said Jan Scruggs, President and founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. "We believe it's critical to transform the Memorial from the 'wall that heals' to the 'wall that teaches.' Even though the War was fought only a generation ago, many high school students today know little about it or about the impact that it had on our society. WinStar's contribution to these education initiatives will go a long way to closing the knowledge gap and making sure that the sacrifices of these veterans will not be forgotten." WinStar will begin collecting these remembrances today from directors of the VVMF's Corporate Council as part of a Council meeting at the Memorial in Washington, D.C. The company will collect additional remembrances as the VVMF's Traveling Wall moves from city to city throughout the United States. Visitors can leave their personal remembrances for incorporation into the Web site at the Traveling Wall, which will travel to more than 30 cities over the next twelve months. (For a full listing of Traveling Wall destinations and more information, visit vvmf.org or call 202-393-0090.) VVMF and WinStar also plan to develop a high school curriculum on the War that will use the Web site and be distributed to 30,000 of the nation's schools for the next school year. The curriculum will be reviewed by a committee of prominent American historians and journalists including the author Stanley Karnow, and former Washington Post reporter Don Obedorfer.