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On Memorial Day, Words from Legendary Campaign Finance Reformer, Doris "Granny D" Haddock
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
On Memorial Day, Words from Legendary Campaign Finance Reformer, Doris "Granny D" Haddock

  • Added: May 28, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
AFVN: The GI's Companion
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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For ten years, the Armed Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio served as a lifeline to "home" for the millions who served in Vietnam and southeast Asia.

Bought by KSRQ, KFSK, WABE, WMNR, KCNP and more


  • Added: May 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 7
High Country Celtic Radio 269 - Memorial Day
From: High Country Celtic Radio
Series: High Country Celtic Radio
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[This episode previously aired on 05/23/20] Celtic music is renowned for its songs celebrating those that fight in wars over the centuries and the...

Bought by WFHB, WDSE, KAAD-LP, WOMR, Radio Kansas and more


  • Added: May 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Veterans Appreciation Music Mix - Hour 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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For on or near VETERAN'S DAY or MEMORIAL DAY, or most any time, a second carefully curated hour of music for and about veterans, appreciating their...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WVIA, KUHF, KMSU, KXCV and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Holiday Classics
Caption: https://unsplash.com/photos/2x-dj_r0H9Y, Credit: Jeremy Bezanger
This is a Veterans Day program. "Veterans Day [Honoring Those Who Served]" is a musical program containing Patriotic Songs and music praising the ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:48
Her son was killed in Afghanistan last year. This is her first Memorial Day as a Gold Star mother.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Cheryl Rex,right, is comforted by her mother, Clarinda Montsuoka, near the grave of Rex's son at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Orange County, California. Lance Corporal Dylan Merola was killed in Afghanistan in August 2021., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
Cheryl Rex's son Dylan was among the last American victims of the Afghanistan war. In the months since his death, she's visited his grave almost ev...

Bought by Texas Public Radio and KWMU St. Louis


  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
More than a three-day weekend: A small movement tries to return Memorial Day to its original meaning
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Nassau County, N.Y. Executive Bruce Blakeman shows a video of the Israeli Memorial Day moment of silence. Blakeman is calling for a similar county-wide initiative on Long Island. , Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
Leaders in Long Island, New York want people to pull their cars off the road and stop what they're doing for two county-wide moments of silence to ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
High Country Celtic Radio 166 - Memorial Day
From: High Country Celtic Radio
Series: High Country Celtic Radio
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[RE-AIR: repeat of 113 from 05/23/20] Memorial Day in the US marks the unofficial start to summer, complete with barbecues and family picnics. But ...

Bought by WDSE, KASU, WFHB, KAAD-LP, KAMU and more


  • Added: May 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Songs That Won The War (Memorial Day Special)
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow (Jazz and American Popular Song): Specials
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From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special, we look at the songs of World W...

Bought by KRCB 104.9, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSKA, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
High Country Celtic Radio 113 - Memorial Day
From: High Country Celtic Radio
Series: High Country Celtic Radio
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Memorial Day in the US marks the unofficial start to summer, complete with barbecues and family picnics. But it's a holiday that marks the solemn c...

Bought by KVLU, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KMUN, WDSE, KVLU and more


  • Added: May 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
Memorial Day with Lefty Lee
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Today is Memorial Day. So happy Memorial Day. Many people have the day off work today and many will be spending time with friends and family. But w...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2019
  • Length: 15:53
Snap 917: Shrapnel, 5/24/2018
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
Caption: Snap Judgment
Snap #917 "Shrapnel" -- When a bomb explodes, it releases thousands of shards in every direction. And each one of those shards, can change lives.

  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
When veterans die without loved ones, these volunteers make sure they have a send off
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A bugler plays Taps at Bay Pines National Cemetery as veterans stand at attention for their fellow former service members who died without close relatives., Credit: Bobbie O'Brien/American Homefront
Memorial Day is set aside to remember those who died in military service. But a group of military veterans in Florida works all year to commemorate...

Bought by KGUA, KBBI Alaska, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 6
Nick Bacon by Stephen Lang
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Nick Bacon
The story of Nick Bacon is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He portra...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 16:50
PN 17-05 "Memorial Day" by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Sunnylyn Thibodaoux, poet
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux mediates on the anxieties and ambitions of adult life.

Bought by KENW and KALW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bars That Are "Joints" - New Orleans 170527
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song on Saturday Night New Orleans Radio
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For those of a certain age, the start of summer isn't about going to the beach because a life's worth of hamburgers means never again wearing a bat...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 20:24
Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance, Credit: Julia Meek
It's a time of military memorials in our world, and that's the hallowed path we walk on this week's edition, with musical reflections on battles--a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WVIA, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 17
These Few Remaining Memories
From: City High Radio
Caption: Mattea, her big sister, Margo, and her dad
Even though Mattea was only six years old when her dad died, the loss still affects her today. In this moving story, Mattea, now 17, sits down to t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 09:28
  • Purchases: 1
Men, Women, and Guns: Toxic Masculinity in Mass Shootings
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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After a mass shooting, two common responses are to examine gun laws and mental health services. In this show, we revisit the tragedy in Isla Vista ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day Special - Bryan Doerries
From: How To Be Amazing
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Bryan Doerries has become responsible for one of the biggest collaborations in history between the U.S. Military and the arts world using greek tra...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WKMS, and WVTF


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 56:33
  • Purchases: 3
Mitchell Zuckoff reads from Frozen In Time: An Epic Story of Survival and A Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II (5/26)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. Air date suggested: this Memorial Day.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WEZU


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Military's "Woman Problem"
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the Pentagon's systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to bat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Author Robert Hicks and a Civil War cemetery
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
Caption: McGavock Confederate Cemetery, Credit: Gene Korte
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2013
  • Length: 09:52
  • Purchases: 1
Author Siobhan Fallon and “You Know When the Men Are Gone”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Siobhan’s debut collection of short stories is that most unusual of war books. It's not about the battlefields. Most of the stories take place at F...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1