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More Vietnam vets now qualify for disability benefits, but it may be years before they see the money
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Vietnam Veteran Jim Scott, who now volunteers for the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, shared his story at the 2018 Bladder Cancer Think Tank. Scott attributes his disease to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam., Credit: Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network
Veterans suffering from certain medical conditions became eligible for "presumptive" VA disability benefits last year. But the claims they're filin...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 7
Driving buses, giving vaccines, patrolling the border: Is the National Guard asked to do too much?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A member of the National Guard drives a school bus van in Chelsea, Mass. in October. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker activated the Guard to address a shortage of drivers as the school year began., Credit: Jesse Costa / WBUR
The National Guard is being tasked with a growing number of missions, and critics argue that heavy deployments are straining the force.

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
For the first time, the VA is helping some veterans with PTSD get service dogs
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Army veteran Scot Pondelick said Venus, his PTSD service dog, has helped him feel more comfortable spending time in public and around groups of people., Credit: Chris Haxel / American Homefront
Congress has mandated a pilot program that will pay to train service dogs and place them in veterans' homes.

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 5
In hot real estate markets, buyers using VA mortgages can have a hard time competing for homes
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Real estate agent Leslie Alford said the housing market near Ft. Riley, Kansas has been "crazy" this year,” with “a whole lot less houses for sale, a whole lot more competition for them, and higher prices.”, Credit: Courtesy Leslie Alford
Troops and veterans sometimes are hurt by misconceptions about VA mortgages, or they encounter sellers who don't want their home to go through a VA...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 4
A study shows PTSD carries a stigma for veterans - regardless of whether they suffer from it
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America erected this window display in New York City as part of a 2015 PTSD awareness campaign., Credit: IAVA
Fewer than 20 percent of veterans suffer from PTSD, but most Americans think the disorder is far more common.

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 7
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 22, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Unhinged Trump Drove Top U.S. General to Take Steps to Prevent Nuclear War...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Ajmal Achekzai
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Ajmal Achekzai reflects on escaping Afghanistan as a child, returning as a U.S. Marine, and his fears and hope for the future of its people.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
'He just wanted to serve his country': A widow mourns one of the last troops to die in the Afghanistan war
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Alena Knauss stands in the laundry room of her North Carolina home, which she's been renovating and re-tiling. She placed the initials "R" and "A" in the tile for herself and her husband Ryan, who was killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan August 26. , Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
More than 2,400 U.S. service members were killed in the Afghanistan war. The Pentagon said Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss - who died from injuries ...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 4
Escape from Kabul
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we unpack the war in Afghanistan, the misguided way it began and the catastrophic way it ended.

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Arlington National Cemetery is filling up, so the Army may limit who can be buried there
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Kathi Dugan, 73, retired from the Navy after 30 years. Her parents are both buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but Dugan may not be able to join them if the Army proceeds with a plan to cut eligibility for in-ground burials., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
Many former troops consider an Arlington burial their final veterans benefit. But space for in-ground burials is getting scarce, so some vets may b...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2021
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
Kabuliwalas
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Poster for "From Kabul to Kolkata" photography exhibition
Even though the touching stories in books and delicious kebabs in tiny restaurants are part of our enjoyment of “diversity,” they are also a remind...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Tiny Home projects are expanding, offering homeless veterans independence and security
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The first Veterans Community Project campus in Kansas City, Mo. features 49 tiny homes for homeless veterans. The organization hopes to have similar villages in eight cities by the end of 2022., Credit: Chris Haxel / American Homefront
In cities nationwide, groups addressing veteran homelessness by replacing the traditional shelter model with tiny homes.

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 7
600,000 Dead. For What?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of the podcast we revisit a program about Syria’s war. We explore what was accomplished after 10 years of bloodshed and what...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Some states are doing what the federal government won't: Giving veterans benefits to gay ex-troops
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Former Navy sailor Louis Miller stands on the deck of the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. Miller was kicked out of the Navy in 1992 for being gay., Credit: Courtesy Louis Miller
Thousands of troops were expelled for being gay before Congress changed the law in 2011. Though many still don't qualify for federal veterans benef...

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  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 8
The Marines' first west coast female boot camp is over, and it may be years before it happens again
From: American Homefront Project
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A group of female recruits completed Marine boot camp in San Diego this spring - the first time the Corps has trained women outside of Parris Islan...

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  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
After billions of dollars in damage, the military is trying to protect bases from climate change
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Military and civilian officials attend a ceremonial groundbreaking at Camp Lejeune, N.C. for a major reconstruction effort that will make the base more resilient to the effects of climate change., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
Hurricanes caused catastrophic damage to East Coast military bases in 2018. Now, as it starts to rebuild, the Pentagon wants to make bases less vul...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 4
National Native American Veterans Memorial celebrates a complicated tradition of service
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: The National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. opened in November. The monument incorporates water for sacred ceremonies, benches, and lances where visitors can tie cloths for prayers and healing., Credit: Ron Cogswell / Flickr
Native Americans join the military at a high rate, but some struggle with the military's role in displacing and subjugating Indigenous people throu...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 5
Slowly and cautiously, the VA is reopening its medical clinics
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Medical personnel care for a patient in the parking garage of the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in Tampa. Much of the emergency department has been relocated outside., Credit: Ed Drohan / James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
Medical facilities run by the Department of Veterans Affairs are reopening at a slower pace than many civilian health systems. But the VA has recen...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 3
COVID-19 has upended the business model of American Legion posts, but Legionnaires are innovating
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Comedian Fernando Sanchez warms up attendees of American Legion Post 397's comedy night Oct. 10. The Monterey Park, Cal. post has turned to events like this to raise money during the pandemic., Credit: Robert Garrova / American Homefront
American Legion posts across the country serve as a community hub for veterans and their families. But the pandemic has put the future of many post...

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 5
Who Rules the World In a World Where Truth Really Matters
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Adolescents, the life cycle's truthtellers, any paleobiologist, or historian knows truth matters..., Credit: Susan Cook
In 2007, after the Iraq War began, Truth was traded freely for access to Power. The consequence of today's hemorrhaging of Truth requires more than...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 09:02
The Air Force is under pressure to explain a longstanding racial disparity in punishment
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Risha Grant, an inclusion and bias expert, holds a closed-door discussion with leaders at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. June 30. Throughout the summer, the Air Force has been holding town halls and trainings about racial injustice., Credit: Sarah Brice / U.S. Air Force
Advocates are calling attention to statistics that show Black airmen are brought up for punishment more often than their white counterparts. The Ai...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 4
340 - Trickle Down Fear-o-nomics
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Chinatown in Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Why is it when there is tension between two countries, the fear always seems to end up at the dining table.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
After initially saying it wouldn't, the VA now will remove Nazi symbols from two veterans cemeteries
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A gravestone for a German POW in the San Antonio VA cemetery. The stone is engraved with a swastika and an inscription that references Adolf Hitler., Credit: Military Religious Freedom Foundation
The stones, engraved with swastikas, mark the graves of German POWs who died in the United States during World War II.

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
Hundreds of National Guardsmen Remain Deployed At The Border. For Some, It's A Plum Assignment
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: National Guard Specialist Joshua Smoak, a camera operator, sits inside a Mobile Video Surveillance System Truck in Rio Grande City, Texas., Credit: DeJon WIlliams / Texas Air National Guard
For military personnel at the U.S.-Mexico border, including National Guard troops, it's an unusual assignment. Many are quartered in hotels, and th...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
The VA has embraced artificial intelligence to improve veterans' health care
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Drs. Andrew Borkowski (left) and Stephen Mastorides analyze slides under a microscope to spot cancer in tissue samples. They trained a computer to do the same thing., Credit: Stephanie Colombini / American Homefront
Researchers at the Tampa veterans' hospital are training computers to diagnose cancer. It's one example of how the Department of Veterans Affairs i...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 5

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