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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
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
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
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
Students and Soldiers: Captivating Stories from Montana Veterans
From: Beth Anne Austein
Caption: Willard Alternative High School student, Keifer Clark, interviews 93-year-old Bataan Death March survivor, Ben Steele. , Credit: Julie Jorgenson
"Students and Soldiers" weaves together wartime stories from twelve Montana veterans of various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Interviewed by t...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBRP Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KMXT, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Independent Minds: At War in the Pacific
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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A new perspective on the often-overlooked story of the Marines who fought in the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War II.

Bought by KGOU, WVTF, WLPR , KUHF, WVTF and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2009
  • Length: 55:54
  • Purchases: 61
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
Remembering...The D-Day Spirit
From: Ted Magnuson
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Patriotic recollections

  • Added: Nov 22, 2007
  • Length: 08:49
Patriots
From: Laura Spero
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In May 2002, seniors compare the post 9/11 world to Pearl Harbor and World War II.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 28, 2007
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 1
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
Bluma Shapiro: Portrait of a Holocaust Survivor
From: Aaron Henkin
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Bluma Shapiro is a grandmother of four... and a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2007
  • Length: 15:25
Prisoners of War: A Story of Four American Soldiers
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
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Four Vermont soldiers talk about life in German prison camps after their capture at the Battle of the Bulge, and the life-changing effects of this ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WRVO Public Media, PRX to iTunes, KUT-HD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2006
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 17
MASH 1969 - Visions of War, Dreams of Peace
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic D...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, WKMS, WRGY, KBYS 88.3 FM, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
The Gilchrist Brothers
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Interview with Congressman Wayne Gilchrist of Maryland and his brothers, three of whom served in Vietnam.

Bought by KUOW, WFUV, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Woody's Journey
From: Center for Emerging Media
Series: Shared Weight
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Vietnam Veteran and drug therapist Woody Curry returns to Vietnam forty years later.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KUOW, WNYC, New England Public Media, KSUT and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
From WWII to Iraq War: U.S Veterans on War and Peace
From: Miae Kim
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Four U.S. veterans share their views on war. An eighty-three year-old World War II veteran, two Vietnam War veterans, and a Gulf War veteran tell ...

Bought by KZYX, Marfa Public Radio, New England Public Media, and WDNA


  • Added: Mar 24, 2006
  • Length: 27:16
  • Purchases: 4
Welcome To My World
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For a young Canadian child, the battles of the Second World War are so far in the past that they might as well be from another world.

  • Added: Dec 01, 2005
  • Length: 13:25
In Honor of Veterans
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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This Veterans' Day program pays tribute to America's fighting men and women through first-hand accounts of battle, as well as music and poetry that...

Bought by KTNA, KSLU, KVLU, KMSU, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 53:07
  • Purchases: 40
Vietnam Blues
From: Tina Antolini
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Vince Gabriel is a Vietnam veteran who's written an album of songs chronicling his experience of the war. He takes listeners back to 1968, to the j...

Bought by KSKA, RadioFreePalmer, WJSU, WABE, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 15