How virtual piano lessons brought two New York City teens together during the pandemic
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When New York City went into lockdown and kids had to adapt to virtual learning, some lost motivation. But one eighth-grader from East Harlem, New York was determined to use the time at home for good.
Osiel Dominguez, a student at Partnership Schools' Our Lady Queen of Angels, told CBS News that ever since he was a little kid, he's hated sitting at home and needs to be active. "So my dad would always joke around, 'We're going to put you guys in a mariachi band.' He's like, 'You're going to play accordion and your brother's going to play guitar.' And I was like, 'I don't want to play that. I want to play the piano one day,'" Dominguez said.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.