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Centenary Edition: WWI Living History Project
From: will everett
Caption: Frank Buckles in 1918, last living U.S. veteran of WWI.
Interviews with the last surviving veterans of World War One. Hosted by Walter Cronkite and Will Everett.

Bought by KFCF FM, WYAP, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, WVTF, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:53:27
  • Purchases: 27
After They've Served (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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No matter how they served or where or when, for veterans, returning to civilian life is a big transition.

Bought by WTJU, WCPN, KICI Iowa City, WLPR , KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 16
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 KJZZ, KFAI Minneapolis, WRKF, WWNO, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 57:32
  • Purchases: 17
American Veteran: For a World War II navigator, the Army provided a sense of purpose
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: 2nd Lieutenant Edward Field, veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II., Credit: Insignia Films
When Edward Field was in a plane crash during World War II, an act of altruism saved his life. Field – who grew up gay and Jewish in New York – fou...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
American Veteran: She dreamed of a Marine Corps career, but wasn't prepared for the 'shadow side.'
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Sergeant C.J. Scarlet, veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps., Credit: Ronan Killeen
Growing up as the daughter of a Marine, C.J. Scarlet dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps. When she enlisted in 1981, she was part of the...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
American Veteran: This Black World War II aviator first experienced racial integration in a POW camp
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Harold Brown, member of World War II’s Tuskegee Airmen., Credit: Ronan Killeen
When he was 11 years old, Harold Brown decided he wanted to be a pilot. He flew 30 missions during World War II as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the ...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
American Veteran: In the era of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, military service meant living a double life
From: American Homefront Project
Series: 2022 American Veteran
Caption: Brandon D. Anderson, veteran of the U.S. Army., Credit: Ben Bloodwell
Brandon Anderson spent nearly five years in the Army, deploying twice to Iraq between 2003 and 2008. But as a gay service member during the Don’t A...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Veterans Appreciation Music Mix - Hour 1
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
Caption: Host Paul Ingles' father John S. Ingles, and grandfather Harry C. Ingles, 1944
For on or near VETERAN'S DAY or MEMORIAL DAY, or most any time, a carefully curated hour of music for and about veterans, appreciating their sacrif...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Veterans Appreciation Music Mix - Hour 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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For on or near VETERAN'S DAY or MEMORIAL DAY, or most any time, a second carefully curated hour of music for and about veterans, appreciating their...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVIA, KUHF, KMSU, KXCV and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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...

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  • Added: Mar 29, 2020
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 77
Conversations with Veterans
From: WHYY
Series: The Pulse Specials
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There are 19 million veterans in the U.S. who have served in the armed forces. For many, the military gave them a sense of shared purpose, a strong...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Humankind Evergreen EV #237: Helping Vets Heal from War(Pts 1 & 2)
From: Humankind
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SEGMENT 1: In time for Veterans Day weekend, we hear profiles of American soldiers who, after military service, returned home to face another battl...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 46
Songwriting To Heal Soldiers' Trauma
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Getting Into Vietnam (hour version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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In the first episode of With Good Reason’s new documentary series on the Vietnam War, historians Fred Turner and Wilbur J. Scott explore how the se...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
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...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 104
Coming Home: Stories of Veterans Returning from War
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union: Season Three
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More than two million veterans have come home so far from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. For returning veterans, reintegrating into society can be...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 44
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...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2005
  • Length: 53:07
  • Purchases: 39
The War in the Air
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: World War One planes
It's the 100th anniversary of World War One. CBC Radio presents The War in the Air. At the start of the war generals publicly stated their disdain ...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 8
Mothers and Sons
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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a sonic memorial to the healing power of art

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 26:44
  • Purchases: 10
Battlefields, Boeings, and Basketball Courts (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The war in Vietnam touched many different lives, in many different ways. This special Veteran's Day episode of With Good Reason shares memories of ...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 16
An American Life
From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont
Caption: Vaughn Hood, Credit: Erica Heilman
A story about war and hairdressing.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:50
Transforming the Trauma: Soldiers Stories
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Two generations of veterans cope with PTSD—looking to heal themselves and heal the world. Featuring S. Brian Wilson, author of “Blood on the Tracks”

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
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...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:24
  • Purchases: 10
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...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2010
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 20
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

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 36
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.

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2004
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 10
The WASPs: Women Pilots of WWII
From: Radio Diaries
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The story of the first female pilots in WWII.

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2003
  • Length: 22:42
  • Purchases: 50
JazzStories: Randy Weston — From Brooklyn to the Berkshires and Back
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
Caption: Randy Weston , Credit: Frank Stewart
Pianist Randy Weston has seen a lot people and places in his life. Born in Brooklyn in 1926 and served in the US Army during World War II. But it ...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 8
Reflecting on an IED
From: Levingston Lewis
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“Getting blown up was one of the best things that has ever happened to me.”

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 5
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...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 08:01
  • Purchases: 7
A war at home: a soldier’s mission against PTSD
From: KALW
Caption: Jeremy Profitt
For some soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, really is a four-letter word. A PTSD diagnosis means you may need treatment for the res...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 5
A Veteran's Son Goes to Vietnam
From: Graham Shelby
Caption: Graham Shelby plays with Duy (in orange) and other kids at an orphanage in Vietnam in 1994.
Writer Graham Shelby grew up wondering what had happened to his father in Vietnam. Just after graduating from college in 1994, Graham went to find ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 3
Retiring with Dahlias
From: Liz Jones
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A WW2 vet reflects on his time as a marine and his passion for growing dahlias.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2005
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 3
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...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2005
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 17
Green Army Hat
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Col. Villa
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
Mothers in Uniform
From: KRCC-FM
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Mothers in the military talk about being deployed

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2005
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 8
American Veteran: She joined the Army to learn to cook. She ended up a prisoner of war
From: American Homefront Project
Series: American Veteran 2021
Caption: Specialist Shoshana Johnson, veteran of the U.S. Army, Credit: Insignia Films
Shoshana Johnson was the first Black female prisoner of war in American history. The trauma of that experience has stayed with her for years.

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 12
American Veteran: How 'The Reaper' made peace with the aftermath of war
From: American Homefront Project
Series: American Veteran 2021
Caption: Army veteran Nick Irving., Credit: Ben Bloodwell
Nick Irving earned a reputation as one of the deadliest Army Rangers in history. But civilian life was far less straightforward.

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 10
American Veteran: From eager recruit to conscientious objector
From: American Homefront Project
Series: American Veteran 2021
Caption: Private First Class Clifton Hicks, veteran of the U.S. Army., Credit: Amanda Lalezarian
After joining the Army in response to the 9/11 attacks, Clifton Hicks found the reality of war was nothing like the movies he’d grown up watching.

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 8
American Veteran: 'So different than what we thought it would be'
From: American Homefront Project
Series: American Veteran 2021
Caption: 1st Lieutenant Edie Meeks, veteran of the U.S. Army., Credit: Insignia Films
Serving as a nurse in Vietnam, Edie Meeks struggled to balance compassionate care for her patients with the anger she felt about the war.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGOU, RadioStPete Florida, KBBI Alaska, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 8
American Veteran: His mom hoped he'd patrol Coney Island. Instead, he was a witness to history.
From: American Homefront Project
Series: American Veteran 2021
Caption: Frank DeVita, veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard, holds a picture of himself in uniform when he served in World War II., Credit: Amanda Lalezarian
70 years after he worked a landing craft off the coast of France on D-Day, the memories of World War II still haunt Frank DeVita.

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 8
Under pressure from Congress, some states are making it easier for overseas troops to vote
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Master Sgt. Blayne Ralston, right, speaks with Tracey Hall, installation voting program manager, and Michael Glover, Airman and Family Readiness Center causality assistance representative, during an Armed Forces Voting Week event at Hanscom Air Force Base, Credit: Todd Maki / U.S. Air Force
States are mailing absentee ballots sooner and - in a few places - letting troops cast ballots online. Still, voter turnout among military personne...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KUT, KPBS, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 4
The Forgotten 14% – Our Female Vets
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
When it comes to how we treat our veterans,we do pretty well in some areas, but fall down in others. Homelessness is one of the worst. It’s way t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Denny Meyer
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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U.S. Navy veteran Denny Meyer remembers what it was like to be gay and a sailor in the late 1960s.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WDBM, WEZU, KMUD, KISU and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 8
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 Decisions Project - 23 - Marriage Before Deployment
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Decisions Project
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A single mom decides to marry her best friend before his deployment to Iraq.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
World War One and Armistice Day
From: Lester Graham
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Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, the day that World War I was to end. Here's one veteran's experiences.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WRVO Public Media, KUCB, 'The Sea', KRPS and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 33
Henry Nicholas Gunther, November 11, 1918
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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Officially the last American to be killed in World War I. In a cruel twist of fate, Henry Gunther "cheated life" by dying needlessly on a field in ...

Bought by WRVG - Georgetown College Student Radio and KTRL


  • Added: Oct 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2

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