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Retired Marines Anny and Jonny Pena talk about the challenges they faced as military spouses, and what it was like when Jonny came home from Afghan...
Bought by WVBI-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 3
Yvette Benavidez Garcia and her husband, Rene, remember her father, Army Master Sgt. Roy P. Benavidez, a Medal of Honor recipient.
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 02:18
- Purchases: 1
Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Angela Nguyen is going away to college and leaving behind everything she loves. Her dad did the same when he left Vietnam. But unlike her, he left ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 06:49
Command Sergeant Major Roy Wilkins and Retired Army 1st Sergeant Keith Melick, who first crossed paths at war in 2004, talk about reuniting in a VA...
Bought by Blue Mountain Radio , WEZU, and WTJU
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 3
Shirley Parrello speaks with former Marine Sergeant Kevin Powell, who was with her son Lance...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: :10
- Purchases: 1
My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 11:01
Marine Corporal Paul Wayman (L) talks with his friend Nathanael Roberti, (R) a former Navy Seal, about their trouble readjusting to civilian life a...
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 02:03
- Purchases: 2
Sally Edwards (L) and Lue Hutchinson (R) remember becoming friends after they both lost sons in the Gulf War.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 1
Staff Sergeant Daniel Hodd and his mother, Evelyn, talk about Daniel's decision to put aside a promising career as a pianist in order to join the M...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 2
Tracy Johnson and her mother in-law, Sandra Johnson, talk about the death of their wife and daughter, Army Staff Sergeant Donna Johnson.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Gordon Bolar tells StoryCorps founder Dave Isay about his son, Army Specialist Matthew Bolar, who was killed in Iraq in 2007.
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
Sgt. Matthew Pennington was injured while serving on combat duty in Iraq. He showed signs of PTSD, but is working toward recovery by promoting self...
Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2012
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 2
Love of music prompted Homer Parce to sign up for an army band. Military service whisked the small town South Dakota boy across the Pacific just a...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 06:18
16-year-old Jamie Marks interviews her former kindergarten teacher Ron Cushman about choosing his career after being wounded in Vietnam.
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 3
Peter Headen and his wife, Jacqueline, tell the story of their 40-year courtship.
Bought by WEZU, KBBI Alaska, and KUOW
- Added: Feb 13, 2012
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 05:15
Last November, hundreds took to the streets of San Francisco to protest the Burmese election. According to the U.S. Census, there are more than 9,0...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 05:01
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, the Bay Area was a center for activism against the war in Vietnam. Some of those protestors happened to be returning veterans...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 06:39
It’s been less than a year since “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed, and soon, gays and lesbians can come out – or go in – to the military withou...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: May 25, 2011
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 1
Geoffrey is a guy with his feet in a couple places. He attends school full time, works two jobs, takes care of six siblings and a daughter, and ha...
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 05:50
- Purchases: 2
