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"Inside The Statue: The Inside Story...50 Years Later
From: Paul Fischer
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DEC 26TH IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BY VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. THIS IS THE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED E...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 57:50
Elliott Woods - Veteran, Jounalist and Creator of Third Squad
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Elliott Woods, multimedia journalist based in Livingston, Montana. Elliott is a veteran and his work has been published in Out...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Cherie's Letters
From: Lori Mortimer
Series: Mementos
Caption: The letters Cherie inherited, Credit: Cherie Louise Turner
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 19:47
Episode 37: What Gets Told
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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“History was dependent upon people like me remembering.” A conversation with Betty Reid Soskin, shortly before her 100th birthday.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 26:16
Tell Saki - Part II
From: Israel Story
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In Part II of this tale, Yochai Maital brings the kind of war story we rarely hear – that which begins once the fighting ends. On October 8, 1973, ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 47:57
Mary Gauthier's "Rifles and Rosary Beads" - Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase #89
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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On her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs wi...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, North State Public Radio, KUHF and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
My Vietnam War - During, After, and Way After
From: WGCU
Caption: Michael Hirsh tells his story of being an Army Combat Correspondent in Vietnam.
Punta Gorda resident and WGCU reporter Michael Hirsh shares a first-hand account of his Vietnam War experiences, including audio recordings he made...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Calling Out the Ancestors: My Family's Lingering Civil War Ghosts
From: Saro Lynch-Thomason
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An exploration of regional memories of the American Civil War and the ways we use story to hide or confront our complicated past.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 20:40
TimeTravel: Life Aboard The Tall Ship - U.S. Brig Niagara
From: A. Emily Ralph
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In the summer of 2013, I traveled a six hundred miles, and 200 years into the past to spend nine days living and working aboard the U.S. Brig Niaga...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 10:04
Oly Via Sherkole
From: Robert Smith
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A boy's escape from war and the beginning of a new life in the United States.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 18:59
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Syrian Man's Life in Fargo
From: Prairie Public
Caption: Mahmoud Toureh at the Fargo Theatre, Credit: Meg Luther Lindholm
Mahmoud Toureh is now 23. He moved to Fargo, North Dakota when he was 12. He talks about his life between two countries, his fears for Syria, and...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 18:52
Friends and Freedom Fighters
From: Philip Armand
Caption: Freedom Fighter
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2016
  • Length: 09:11
Somali artist Aziz Osman paints life, loss, and hope
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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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
The Vet's Block
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Anthony Mattia came home from Iraq as a highly decorated soldier, but the trauma he experienced in combat is putting his own freedom in jeopardy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 07:22
  • Purchases: 1
Messages From a Forgotten Troopship (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1960s, it took almost three weeks to cross the sea from America to Vietnam. Three weeks for young men in crowded cabins, with salt water sho...

Bought by WHFR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, KYUK, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
Legacies of War
From: Sallie Bodie
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Everyday, it seems war is in the news. Headlines report on wars from around the globe. But what happens when a war ends? Today, the group called...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
The Making of a Violin
From: The Kitchen Sisters
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Remo del Tredici began making violins in his 70s. Inspired by his neighbor, a volunteer for AmVets, and the memory of his brother who was killed du...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 2
Love in the Time of Refugee Camps
From: Bending Borders
Series: Love is Complicated
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Two Syrians, separated by war, go to great lengths for love.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:29
The Things They Carry: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen
From: Jake Warga
Series: The Things They Carry: U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan
Caption: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen, Credit: Jake Warga
Part of a series that asks U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan what they have to carry around with them every day—from the physical to the emotion...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KKWE Niijii Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 13
Chapter 9 - Facing a World at War
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Too young for induction into the army, Richard works at Best & Co. and next with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians in the shipping department. Upo...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 30:34
A Soldier's Story on Film
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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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
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
WorldCanvass
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This month's program is about human rights.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:03:38
Everything Has Collapsed
From: Vaska Trajkovska
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A documentary exploring the effects of being a refugee on identity and personal relationships.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 51:59