Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II. But Turing was to find that the country he saved cared less about his genius and more about his sexual orientation.

Great for those on the road this Memorial Day:

A special revisiting Steinbeck's iconic book, Travels with Charley, and journeying into today's America through the eyes of contemporary artists. Visit Sag Harbor, N.Y.; New Orleans; North Dakota; Spokane, Wash.; Humboldt County, Cal., and Monterey, Cal. Produced by John Biewen of CDS and hosted by Al Letson of State of the Re:Union.

A special three-part series of hour-long episodes exploring the causes and consequences of the American Civil War.

A new perspective on the often-overlooked story of the Marines who fought in the brutal Pacific Campaign of World War II.

A look at the ways Americans have remembered their dead, from the Revolutionary War up through the present.

Nearly 40 public radio producers from around the world lend their voices to a roll call of just some of the names of casualties from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in a program being made available to U.S. public radio stations for use on or around Memorial Day.

This program visits with five families of veterans wounded by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The families are coping with the aftermath of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post traumatic stress (PTSD).

Profiles of poet George Evans, a veteran medic, and Lynda Van Devanter, whose experiences as Vietnam nurse inspired China Beach. Warning: Graphic Depictions of Medical Operations.

In 2002, on the eve of being deployed to Iraq, men and women of the Third Infantry Brigade, the first ground troops to be sent to the Persian Gulf, open their hearts and minds in a way not often heard on the media. Four married couples frankly discuss moral issues, infidelity, and sexual harassment as well as the topics more commonly broached by reporters. Two combat veterans among them tell of their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. The result is a candid and intimate portrait of professional soldiers trying to combine the disparate worlds of love and war.

How war influences identity and memory in both the individual and the national sense. From Radio Netherlands.

Vince Gabriel is a Vietnam veteran who has written an album of songs chronicling his experience of the war. He takes listeners back to 1968, to the jungle of Vietnam.

This is the story of a woman, Jennie Hodgers, who posed as a man during the entire Civil War and went on to live most of her life as a man in the tiny town of Saunemin, Illinois. Through the years the town has been ambivalent about their most famous citizen and has struggled to figure out what to do with her old house. From Linda Paul with Jay Allison.

Memorial Day, a national holiday of remembrance, was first celebrated south of the Mason/Dixon line in Petersburg, Virginia at Blandford Church Cemetery.

World War II was raging; Kathleen Barrett Price's brother had been killed. But, doing what the Irish do best, the family found solace in song and laughter. They hosted parties in the basement space beneath their grocery store and tavern in north St Louis. Over the course of three years, she and her sister Mary Hohmann captured the warmth and hilarity of these gatherings. From Susan Barrett Price.

Carolin Kunze’s fiancé Matt Fuller, was a cavalry scout in the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. The two had only just begun their life together when Matt’s post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms became a challenge to their relationship. Between his two deployments in Afghanistan, they discovered their struggles were different than the ones most couples face. Reporter Lindsey Lee Keel has the story.

**Note: this story is posted to PRX in two parts to make room for a station ID at the end of Part I.**

Carolin Kunze’s fiancé Matt Fuller, was a cavalry scout in the 101st Airborne Division of the US Army. The two had only just begun their life together when Matt’s post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms became a challenge to their relationship. Between his two deployments in Afghanistan, they discovered their struggles were different than the ones most couples face. Reporter Lindsey Lee Keel has the story.

**Note: this story is posted to PRX in two parts to make room for a station ID at the end of Part I.**

Part II is here.

Military families like Tracy Crawford’s are becoming more and more common, though the challenges they face remain. That’s being acknowledged by many people in our nation’s capitol, including First Lady Michelle Obama. In fact, it was the subject of her speech to the U.S. Military Academy’s Class of 2011 just a few days ago:

FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA: I want to talk about what family can and will mean for you as leaders of our Army and of our nation … Because our force is a force of families. And that’s become more clear even in just a generation. During Vietnam, most of our troops were young, single men, and most of those were married had spouses who stayed at home. But today more than half of our service members are married. Forty percent have two or more kids, and most military spouses are employed outside of the home. That’s what today’s military families look like.

Obama’s Westpoint graduation speech follows last month’s announcement of the "Joining Forces" initiative, which calls on all Americans "to mobilize, take action and make a real commitment to supporting our military families.” That initiative is being spearheaded by the First Lady as well as the Vice President’s wife, Jill Biden. But help is also coming from the Department of Defense. To learn more about what the military is doing to support its families, KALW’s Holly Kernan called the DOD’s Office of Family Policy/Children & Youth and spoke with Director Barbara Thompson.

In 1919 his grandfather founded Maine Memorial Company in South Portland and the business has been in the family ever since. Paul used to be a banker, and both he and his father never had any desire for him to take over the business. But eventually Paul decided he needed a change and left the banking world behind to pick up his tools and begin carving. Today he sees himself as an artist, transforming people’s memories of their loved ones into portraits on stone.

Weeks after S. Spencer Scott interviewed Lavinia Gelineau about the loss of her husband Chris, a young soldier who was killed in Iraq, Lavinia herself was murdered by her abusive father. A mediation on life during wartime.

When David Shea's mother died in the early 1980s, he decided to move back home to help out his father. David Shea didn't know much about his father until one Memorial Day when Denny Shea took his son along for a ride to the cemetery.

Portraits of Soldiers, war and Iraq through the music they listen too on their i-pods.

Take a spin in a Humvee, clear a room of bad guys, and hear from soldiers about how they’re preparing to leave for war.

World War II veteran Joseph Robertson tells his son-in-law John Fish, Jr. about a soldier he killed in combat.