Morris Frock: Keeping peace (2025)
Morris Frock American Legion Post No. 42 (Hagerstown, MD), est. 1919, is dedicated to my great-great uncle, an internationally recognized WWI hero and recipient of France’s Croix de Guerre. Keeping Peace is my first documentary and a digital short about Post No. 42 and Morris Frock’s legacy as an enlisted conscientious objector and pacifist messenger in two legendary battles that lead to the Allied victory against Germany.
With thanks to Janet Frock Basset, Frock Family Historian; Morris Frock American Legion Post No. 42 Auxiliary Chaplain Elizabeth Shanton, and Retired Chaplain Colonel Richard Hembrock for their interviews on the role of faith in peacebuilding; and to Morris Frock Post No. 42 Commander Jeff Kimbel, 1st Vice Commander Bob Weibel, and Adjutant Howard Whittington for granting access to Post. 42 and archival materials.
Keeping Peace was shot with a Cannon DSLR camera and edited in Adobe Premiere with gratefully received production assistance from Professor Nicole Munchel, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, The Graduate School, University of Maryland.