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Beau Buffkin: "Warfare over there is very, very impersonal."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Beaufort Buffkin served with the U.S. Army as an infantry specialist during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Bravo Battery, with which he...

Bought by KALH


  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Shawn Grove: "It was after 9/11 and I thought I could make a difference."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Shawn Grove was a linguist in the U.S. Army for five years and served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He spent a year in a horse stable, which he said ...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Maxey Carpenter: "It was a good job. So it was like: Move out, kid."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Maxey B. Carpenter achieved the rank of full colonel in the U.S. Army in a career that spanned nearly 30 years. He was deployed to Panama, the Phil...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Craig Misajet: "Hey man, chill out. Your legs are still there. You're good."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Craig Misajet joined the Marine Corps in Feburary 2008, partly to get out of the trouble he'd found in high school in Wyoming. He went to Iraq, whi...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
Bart Bauer: "That camera gave us a false sense of security."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Bart Bauer retired from the U.S. Navy in 2014, after serving 24 years. In Iraq, he was a photographer, part of the Expeditionary Combat Camera oper...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Charlotte Schnase: "Coming home was a big letdown."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Charlotte Schnase was an E-4 in Iraq, a postal worker who got the mail where it needed to go. It's an overlooked job that took its toll on her, esp...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 1
Collin Grote: "Their truck had just been hit with a roadside bomb."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Collin Grote, a sergeant with the Montana Army National Guard, was a combat medic. His convoy was in charge of moving supplies along routes in Iraq...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Adam McCaw: "It's too dangerous to leave things without being smoothed over."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Part of Adam McCaw's job with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry 7th Special Forces Group was to train Afghanis to be police officers. He had to fire a f...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
Tylor Willis: "The day I got blown up is the first day that comes to mind."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Tylor Willis was a Corporal E-4 who served with the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan in the Battle of Sangin. He was awarded a Purple Heart. While in co...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KALH


  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Ryan and Kirk Sharp
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Army Sgt. Ryan Sharp speaks with his father, Kirk Sharp, about feeling off after coming...

Bought by WEZU, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 3
Audio Revolution: MIXTAPE #1 United World College on Conflict - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Series: Audio Revolution!
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Youth Media Project presents the first in an ongoing series of radio shows, the Audio Revolution MIXTAPE series. In MIXTAPE#1, we present a collag...

Bought by KUNM, KUNM, and KRZA


  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 3
WWI: The Shock of the New
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Out of the mire and death of World War One, even before the shooting stops, comes the strangest thing: the novel of the century.

Bought by WABE and WRPI


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 2
From Child Soldier to Stylist
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Lilly Pyle is a skilled hair stylist in Portland, but she's also skilled in combat training. She grew up in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, and as ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
Counselors Without Borders
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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From the forest fires in California to child soldiers in Uganda, survivors of disasters are receiving a new kind of aid. Counselors Without Borders...

Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 3
Returning Home
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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What is it like to be a student who has fought in a war?

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:01:50
  • Purchases: 1
Big Fish, Small Pond; Small Fish, Big Pond: A Citizen's Guide to Conscience
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
At a jazz performance, the lady next to me and I struck up a conversation. During World War II, she, a Czechoslovakian, and her family were exiled ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Higher Call: Memorial Day Story
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Charlie Brown & Franz Stigler
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPIK-LP, WHRV, WDCB, KVSC and more


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Flying over Europe in World War Two
From: Traveling 219
Caption: Sherman Beard and his B-24 in formation., Credit: Courtesy of Sherman Beard.
World War Two B-24 bomber pilot veteran Sherman Beard, of Hillsboro, West Virginia remembers flying missions over Europe during the war.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - Part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jerry Lembcke
The end of the First Gulf War saw a vast increase in the number of combat soldiers filing claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the past ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Sorn Jessen: "I grew up in Eastern Montana on the Crow Reservation."
From: University of Montana Journalism
Series: Combat Stories: Vets on War and Why They Went
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Sorn Jessen was attached to the 513th Military Intelligence Battalion out of Fort Gordon, Ga. He deployed with his unit to Camp Doha, Kuwait, in Se...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Sweden's “Open Doors” for Syrian Refugees…at a Perilous Risk
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: migrants arriving on the island of lampedusa in august 2007. pictures taken by Sara Prestianni and taken from storie migrante., Credit: Noborder network
When it comes to embracing refugees, Sweden is known to be among the friendliest countries in the EU. The problem is getting all the way to Sweden....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dodge M37
From: The Telling Room
Caption: Dodge M37, Credit: Andreas von Huene
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:17
Armed forces scale back, PA young people often disappointed
From: PublicSource
Caption: Recruiters for the U.S. Marines canvass shopping plazas, high schools and job fairs for potential soldiers., Credit: Alexandra Kanik/PublicSource
In robust economic times, America’s armed services have had to hustle to recruit qualified soldiers. But when civilian unemployment is high and th...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD by any other name
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers talks with psychotherapist Edward Tick about the history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.

Bought by KVNF and Radio Newark


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:00
  • Purchases: 2
War, Terror, Art, & Rodin: History Always Repeats. The Middle Edges #103
From: Teosson Wells
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History repeats, 650 years later. An entire village held hostage for eleven months by a madman and his weapon-toting mercenaries. During that time,...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 17:01

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