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StoryCorps: Jim Stockdale and Jasey Schnaars
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Vice Admiral James Stockdale was a Vietnam War POW for more than seven years. His son, Jim, recalls the family’s difficult wait for his father’s re...

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 2
Mike Warner: "I don't know how many lives were saved by handing them two MREs."
From: Sergio Anthony Gonzalez
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Michael Warner served with the U.S. Marines from 2002 to 2008, deploying to Iraq from 2003 to the end of 2005. His tank unit cleared a large number...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:57
StoryCorps: Zach Skiles and Scott Skiles
From: StoryCorps
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When Marine Cpl. Zach Stiles returned from Iraq, he couldn't sleep, hold down a job or pay rent. He and his father sat down with StoryCorps to talk...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Karen Jordan
From: The Summit
Series: Recovery Minutes
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Dr. Karen Jordan works with vets and their families to find their way back home together.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
How my dad escaped Vietnam at age 14, without telling his mom.
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: Quang Adam Nguyen, Angela's dad, holding the South Vietnamese and American flags. , Credit: Credit Courtesy of Quang Adam Nguyen
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
11-09: Wounds to Warriors: In the Wound Lies the Gift, 11/12/2014
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Aqeela Sherrills
Wounded warriors have walked through fire. Facing the unimaginable traumas of war, abuse, and violence, what can we learn from looking respectfully...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
No Rice (In the Wake of Vietnam)
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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William and Yvonne Russell talk about life after his return from Vietnam; and how they dealt with PTSD before the term existed.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
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
On the Ground
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with former aid worker David Koren about his experiences during the Biafran airlift in the late 1960s, and explores whether...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Dave Watson and Charlotte Wiskow
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Today on Art Beat we continue our visit to the Winona County Fair. First up we meet Dave Watson a wood sculptor who uses a chainsaw to execute his ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:27
  • Purchases: 1
First World War poetry - The End by Wilfred Owen, read by Mark Prescott
From: Alison Turner
Series: Armistice Day for Expats in Belgium
Caption: Names of fallen soldiers from the First World War, engraved on the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 06:44
A Conversation with Veteran and Author, Richard Currey
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. [28:31]

Bought by KPIP-LP, KBBI Alaska, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 3
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
Up All Night with an Elderly Parent
From: Emily Berman
Caption: Jane Beard, of Silver Spring, Maryland
Now that her kids are grown up, it's not them keeping Jane up at night—it's her father.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
One Holocaust Survivor’s Wonderful Thrill of Life
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious takes you to France as it was in 1932 where Maya Schwartz was born to an immigrant family. 1939 to 1945 her family was torn apart by...

  • Added: May 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
StoryCorps: Harrison Wright and Sean Guess
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Harrison Wright (R) with his grandson, Sean Guess (L)
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
  • Purchases: 1
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
Pearl Harbor Veteran Jim Peacock Remembers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Pearl Harbor veteran Jim Peacock., Credit: Greg Latza, greglatza.com
Jim Peacock is one of only a few dozen U.S. veterans who witnessed both the beginning of World War II at Pearl Harbor and the war's end on deck the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioStPete Florida, RadioStPete Florida, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 13
A Drum Is Always With Me
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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In Portland, a small community exists around the public performance of Middle Eastern music and dance. Portland is also home to an Iraqi community ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
Veterans' Art
From: War News Radio
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From "Warrior Writers" 8/20/2010: War News Radio reports on the Warrior Writers program, which helps US veterans channel their feelings and experie...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Visit to Rwanda
From: Arndt Peltner
Caption: Prison Gitarama, Credit: Peltner
A country in change, that is still hold back by its recent past

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 12:53
Nuremberg - from Nazi-Rallies to the city of Human Rights
From: Arndt Peltner
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An interview with Arno Hamburger, city council member and president of the Jewish community in Nuremberg.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 26:26
Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War
From: Searsport Speeper
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Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48
War! America?
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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Honoring those who fight a war, no matter how unjust

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:09
Kentucky and the War
From: Down to Earth Productions
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A documentary exploring the lives of Kentuckians in combat and on the home-front during World War II.

Bought by WMMT, WEKU, and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 56:19
  • Purchases: 3