This week, more than a dozen veterans at the senior-living center are having their photos taken by Tom Sanders, a Bay Area photographer who is traveling to 24 Belmont Village locations this year to photograph the veterans in those communities. The photos will later be hung in galleries at each facility.
Navy veteran Lee J. Broussard, 87, has portraits taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
WWI Army veteran Sgt. Albert Gluckson, 91, has a hat placed on his head for a portrait taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
WWII Army veteran Sgt. Albert Gluckson, 91, has portraits taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
WWII veteran Willard Schaefer, 86, who served in Okinawa and Japan, has portraits taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
WWII veteran Willard Schaefer, 86, who served in Okinawa and Japan, has portraits taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
A Channel 7 photographer and reporter interview portrait photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Navy veteran Lee J. Broussard, 87, has the attention of a Channel 7 news photographer while arriving for his portait with photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
WWII Army veteran Sgt. Albert Gluckson, 91, has portraits taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Navy veteran Lee J. Broussard, 87, holding medals he received for service from 1945 to 1948, has portraits taken by photographer Thomas Sanders at Belmont Village Senior Living in Burbank on Monday, July 13, 2015. Sanders started to photograph WWII veterans as a project when he was in school for a master’s degree in photography. Sander’s book The Last Good War: The Faces and Voices of WWII has him returning to Belmont Village to retake some of the veterans who are still living as well as new veterans who have since shown up. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)