The "WWI Living History Project" honors the sacrifices and contributions of America's last surviving WWI veterans. The producers have travelled the country in search of the men and women who made the world (in President Wilson's words) "safe for democracy." Twelve of these veterans, aged 105 to 115, share their reminiscences, humor and wit on a two-hour radio special hosted by award-winning CBS anchor Walter Cronkite.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are sending our veterans home with wounds and obstacles not always clearly visible to the rest of the country. These two current wars also illuminate how veterans of previous eras are still trying to come home years after returning from war. In this episode, State of the Re:Union explores how veterans are serving each other after they come back home from serving the country.

Perfect for Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, or Veterans Day!

An hour-long program of jazz and popular song...

It was one of the greatest jazz orchestras ever assembled, led by a popular bandleader who took it overseas to raise the morale of the Allied soldiers fighting World War II in Europe—and who then vanished at the height of his popularity.

Radio producer Paul Ingles sits down with his 89 year old WW II veteran Dad to hear about the music his father feels has been essential to his appreciation of music for all these years. Many references to his war years and how the music connected with the WW II generation.

During this program, Betsy Mulligan-Dague, executive director of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center in Missoula, Montana, and Dan Gallagher, Vietnam Veteran and veteran's advocate, talk about the possibilities for finding common ground in conflicting points of view.

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 draw inspiration from the experience of war.

Episodes 7 and 12 (below) of "Then I'll Be Free to Travel Home" celebrate African American veterans of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the sacrifices they made to build and keep this country safe.

The History Guys explore the treatment of war veterans throughout American history.

Mothers and Sons is a double portrait of the German sculptor Kathe Kollwitz (1867-1945), who created "The Grieving Parents," a moving memorial to her son who died in WWI, and the contemporary German-American sculptor Suse Lowenstein, who created an equally monumental work to honor her son, a victim in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster.

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”

In 1966, a young marine took a reel-to reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Michael Baronowski made tapes of his friends, of life in fighting holes, of combat. 34 years later, his comrade Tim Duffie brought Baronowski's three-inch reels to Lost & Found Sound.

I came home one night to find a homeless vet living in my house. This is the story of Chuck, a wanderer with PTSD and a book in-progress about living in Vietnam as a child and fighting there as an adult.

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 was jazz that exposed him to the most diverse travels.

With the passing of more and more of WWII's veterans, the largest number of vets alive to mark this Veterans Day are those who served in Vietnam. Two Vietnam vets separated in battle during the Tet Offensive by the Vietcong in 1968, came together recently to tell their very different stories of survival. One was captured and spent five years in a prison camp, the other feels angels must have saved him from a similar fate -- or worse.

When U.S. soldiers come back home on leave, they fly through a few central airports. For soldiers headed west of the Mississippi River, that airport is DFW. The USO recently greeted its millionth soldier coming through Dallas/Fort Worth. Many of those millions have been greeted by two women. Producer Julia Barton met them and has this story.

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 rest of your life. It can deeply affect personal and professional relationships, and it often comes with a social stigma.

Jeremy Profitt served in the army in both Afghanistan and Iraq and came back with PTSD. Now that’s he’s out, he has a new mission: to clear up misconceptions about the illness. Priscilla Yuki Wilson has his story.

A WW2 vet reflects on his time as a marine and his passion for growing dahlias.

For a long time blinded veterans and civilians have had few tools for coping with their impairment, and a large number of them choose not to venture outside at all. But emerging technology that allows a person to "see" through the tongue using video imaging and electrodes could change the way people with sensory impairment live.

Eric Whitney talks to military mothers who are deployed in Iraq.

Danfung Dennis worked for several years as a war photographer in Iraq and Afghanistan. In time he came to feel that still photos didn’t portray what he was seeing and hearing on the ground. The romantic image of war he had grown up with from video games and movies was not what he was finding while embedded with Marines in the field.

A look at the history and tradition of the military funeral.

An apology and a plea for a mother's understanding when a son joins the Marines.