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HV- For the Fallen

Series: HearingVoices- Specials
From: Hearing Voices
Length: 00:54:00

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For Memorial Day, the voices of veterans remembering their comrades. Read the full description.

012forfallen200_small Green Beret and poet, Major Robert Schaefer, US Army, hosts the voices of veterans remembering their comrades: We talk with troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reading their emails, poems, and journals, as part of the NEA project: "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience." We hear interviews from StoryCorps, an essay from This I Believe, and the sounds of a Military Honor Guard, recorded by Charles Lane. And we attend the daily "Last Post" ceremony by Belgian veterans honoring the WWI British soldiers who died defending a small town in western Belgium (produced by Marjorie Van Halteren).

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I Thought You'd Never Ask

Piece Description

Green Beret and poet, Major Robert Schaefer, US Army, hosts the voices of veterans remembering their comrades: We talk with troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reading their emails, poems, and journals, as part of the NEA project: "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience." We hear interviews from StoryCorps, an essay from This I Believe, and the sounds of a Military Honor Guard, recorded by Charles Lane. And we attend the daily "Last Post" ceremony by Belgian veterans honoring the WWI British soldiers who died defending a small town in western Belgium (produced by Marjorie Van Halteren).

Timing and Cues

Billboard 1:00
Segment A 23:00
Break 1:00
Segment B 29:00
Promo 0:30

Additional Credits

This is an episode in the series Hearing Voices from NPR now being offered as a standalone special. (Stations that air the HV series can get this special free: send us a PRX message.)

Related Website

http://hearingvoices.com/news/2008/05/hv012-for-the-fallen/