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Memorial Day is May 25th this year.
Food Fight
From: Things That Go Boom
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In this special from from Things That Go Boom, Inkstick Media, and PRX: Two stories about food, family, and the choices our government makes in our...

Bought by WORT, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WABE, WFDD Ops, KECG and more


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 39
Surviving The Bataan Death March (Narration by Jack Doepke)
From: Ronald Duffy
Caption: Ken Porwoll, Proud Veteran, Credit: Brainerd Dispatch (Brainerd, MN)
Veteran Ken Porwoll’s story recounts his inhumane treatment & riveting story of survival as one of 10,000 American & roughly 50,000 Filipino soldie...

Bought by WWNO, WITF, WABE, KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 20
The Afghanistan Papers
From: The Washington Post
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After a three-year legal battle, The Post obtained hundreds of records of candid interviews assessing the war in Afghanistan and its failures. PR...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WYAP, KZYX, KUOW, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 77
We've Never Been The Same: A War Story
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: The Transom Radio Specials
Caption: Some of Delta 187 Rakassans
We've Never Been The Same: A War Story is the story of one night of battle and the decades of recovery that followed. Produced by Adam Piore and Ja...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, Prairie Public, WRGY and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 112
for Memorial Day -- Scott Simon hosts Alan Seeger: Instrument of Destiny
From: Murray Street Productions
Caption: Alan Seeger - Soldier, Diarist & Poet
From the trenches of The Great War, Alan Seeger's poems, letters and diaries spring to life in the voices of Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine...

Bought by KRBD, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KHNS, WNMU-FM, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 50
Mine Enemy: The Story of German POWs in America
From: Alison Jones
Caption: German POW Otto Schwingel and Linda Anderson on Anderson's farm near Florence, S.C., Credit: courtesy of Ingebourg Schwingel
During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps dotted across the U.S. Suddenly the ene...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBBI Alaska, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 89
Monumental Disagreements [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Proposed Mothers' Memorial by John Geddes, 1922-30, Credit: (Library of Congress).
This is a country awash in monuments. They adorn traffic circles, street corners and, of course, the National Mall. In this special Memorial Day ep...

Bought by KMXT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KTSW 89.9, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 102
HV012- For the Fallen
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
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For Memorial Day, the voices of veterans remembering their comrades.

Bought by WGCU, WXDU, New Hampshire Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 100
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
War and Place
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Tom Brokaw and others discuss War Memorials, Veterans, Vietnam and Wars.

Bought by WJCT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: May 08, 2008
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 55
The Silent Generation: From Saipan to Tokyo
From: Helen Borten
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The final year of World War II in the Pacific, told by men who came back and kept silent about the harrowing ordeal that changed their lives.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF, WITF, WABE and more


  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 34
In Honor of Veterans
From: Western Folklife Center Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
WAR AND SEPARATION: LIFE ON THE HOMEFRONT DURING WORLD WAR II
From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: Fugitive Waves
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For Memorial Day —a portrait of life on the homefront during World War II featuring 4 women’s stories, rare home recorded letters sent overseas to ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Nevada Public Radio, WGCU, RadioStPete Florida, 90.5 WESA and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 24:56
  • Purchases: 19
Love and War
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Professional soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia talk of the challenges facing themselves and their families as they prepare to go to war. Produced ...

Bought by WFHB, KMUN, KQAL, WFHB, KUAC and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 18
Bracelets of Grace: The Vietnam War Story of Major Stanley Horne
From: David Berner
Caption: Bracelets of Grace: The Vietnam War Story of Major Stanley Horne
It's been 40 years since the very first POW-MIA bracelet was made and distributed. The iconic bracelets had a humble beginning at the height of th...

Bought by WHFR, RadioFreePalmer, KUAC, WMPG, KVSC and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 21
The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
From: Jay Allison
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Award-winning documentary from Lost & Found Sound, produced by Christina Egloff with Jay Allison

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WRFA-LP, WFHB, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 36
Jennie's Secret
From: Linda Paul
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Take a look at this picture. Maybe you can figure out that the Civil War soldier on the right is a woman. But the guy sitting next to her sure coul...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, WUTC and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 18:05
  • Purchases: 15
The First Memorial Day
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Tiffany stained glass window inside Blanford Church.
Memorial Day, a national holiday of remembrance, was first celebrated south of the Mason/Dixon line in Petersburg, Virginia at Blandford Church Cem...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KQAL, RadioFreePalmer, KUCB and more


  • Added: May 28, 2010
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 24
Vietnam Bones
From: Karen Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man tries to repatriate the bones of a Viet Cong soldier that his father took from the jungle, 35 years earlier.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Prairie Public, WFHB, WTJU, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2004
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 10
Airborne Hero
From: Kathleen Polanco
Caption: U.S. Military service members are represented by white headstones for the men that lost their lives during World War II at the American Cemetery, Normandy, France; June 2, 2015. This is the 71st Anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy remembering th, Credit: (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Berner/Released)
A paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, one of the most highly decorated divisions in the U.S. Army, didn’t understand what it meant to be air...

Bought by Raven Radio, WTIP, KRZA, KYUK, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 7
The Cost of War
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Weeks after S. Spencer Scott interviewed Lavinia Gelineau about the loss of her husband Chris, a young soldier who was killed in Iraq, Lavinia hers...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KISU, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2005
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 18
Can AI help predict military suicides? The VA is funding a project to find out.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Dustin Millado, a veteran who worked in the Army Criminal Investigation Division, is now a digital forensic examiner for Stop Soldier Suicide’s Black Box Project., Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront
The project is using artificial intelligence to analyze data from smartphones, laptops, and other devices of people who take their own lives.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 9
Civil War Re-enactors
From: Jake Warga
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A non-narrated portrait of a small group of Civil War buffs re-dedicating a Union veteran's grave in Oregon and reflecting on when our nation, as w...

Bought by KMXT, Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, New Hampshire Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 11
WarInVoice Medley
From: Bianca Giaever
Series: WarInVoice
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Veterans share their experiences

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, Raven Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 5
The Memorial Day Parade
From: The humble Farmer
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It is not only the people from away who ask silly questions

Bought by Prairie Public, KMXT, KMXT, Prairie Public, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 26, 2008
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 6

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