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For Veterans Day, This I Believe executive producer Dan Gediman explores the beliefs of soldiers who have served in combat from World War I through the Iraq War. This story excerpts essays from Edward R. Murrow's This I Believe series of the 1950s, and NPR's contemporary revival of the program. Essayists featured include Bronx doctor Arthur Abramson (1950s); sports writer and magazine editor Roger Angell (1950s); translator Jeff Carnes of Madison, Wisconsin; and emergency services manager Michael Whitehead of Tallahassee, Florida. Intro copy for your local host is: Our series, This I Believe, was inspired by a radio program of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow in the 1950s. That series -- like our revival today -- asked Americans from all walks of life to examine the beliefs that shaped their lives. For Veterans Day, we asked Dan Gediman, the executive producer of the new This I Believe, to sift through the essays of today and 50 years ago and share a few of the beliefs of those who have been to war. You can open the feature with the This I Believe theme music, also available on PRX: www.prx.org/pieces/11594
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HOST: Our series, This I Believe, was inspired by a radio program of the same name hosted by Edward R. Murrow in the 1950s. That series - like our revival today - asked Americans from all walks of life to examine the beliefs that shaped their lives. For Veteran's Day, we asked Dan Gediman, the executive producer of NPR's This I Believe, to sift through the essays of today and 50 years ago and share a few of the beliefs of those who have been to war.
GEDIMAN: By the middle of the 20th century, it was hard to find a family in the United States that didn't include a veteran. More than 20 million Americans had served in the two World Wars. A few households even had surviving soldiers from the Spanish-American War and the Civil War. And as Edward R. Murrow launched his new program, This I Believe, in 1951, the U.S. was again at war
MURROW: This is Korea. This is the front.......
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