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Friends and soul sisters Natasha Herring (48) and Virginia Vasquez (40) remember their grandparents' life and talk about how they have been influenced by them at various stages in life.

Lawrence "Allen" Byrd lll (46) has a conversation with his mother and father, Connie Bruere Olson Byrd (77) and Lawrence "Larry" Allen Byrd, Jr., about their relationship, family memories, travel experiences, and connection to their children.

StoryCorps Facilitator Kiplyn Primus (62) talks with Just Us Book Club member Jacquelin Lipkins Ridley (68) about her education, career and family.

Blake Curtis (74) and Ryan Wing (39), uncle and nephew respectively, talk about their road to the military and the experiences and lessons learned from service.

Victoria Gillio [no age given] interviews her mother Viva Gillio [no age given] about her life as she met her husband and their correspondence during the war.

Stephen (41) talks to his husband Joshua (33) about being deployed to Iraq and having to keep their relationship secret and about coming out to the public when he asked a DADT-related question during a GOP primary debate in 2011.

Laura Peterson (52) talks with her sorority sister Martha Saunders (93) about her upbringing, education, and work with the community.

Philip Hanson (36) tells Stephanie Jackson (34) about his time in the Army and the National Guard, including his deployment to Iraq.

Judith Peavey (71) shares her thoughts, feelings, and memories about her late husband's life and their relationship leading up to his diagnosis with dementia. Sonia Kinkhabwala (22) accompanies and listens to her stories.

Colleagues Richard Mills (72) and Doug Douds (54) discuss their entrance into the Marine Corps, the importance of learning from the battlefields and histories of the U.S., and making educational approaches accessible to today's learners.

Spouses, Pnomwan Wager (66) and Lawrence Wager (75), discuss Pnomwan’s immigration to the United States, Lawrence’s deployment in Thailand, and their children, as they together recount their love story.

Son-in-law Scott Finlay (65) interviews his father-in-law Bob Kelley (98) about Bob's service in the United States Navy during World War II.

Majorie Works (65) shares with her conversation partner Hazel Diaz (36) stories from her over 20 years of experience in the U.S Air Force.

Allison Leigh Cleveland (61) tells her colleague Angela Meyers (42) about her experiences in the army during the Cold War doing military intelligence and guard duty in Germany. She also describes witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall on her...

One Small Step conversation partners Steven Doles (69) and Jay Ailworth (71) explore each of their different lived experiences. They find commonalities in their military experience as Vietnam veterans, their troubles with far-right conservatives, and discuss how race has impacted...

Susan Slavish (80) shares with her conversation partner Franchesca Peña (26) her experience as a Second Lieutenant, VA nurse, mother, and Infection Control Coordinator.

Andrew Agustin (19) sits down to have a chat with his dad, Roy-Alan Agustin (55), about his long career in the Air Force.

Hillary Barton (38) interviews her great-uncle, Noel Nellis (87), about his childhood, career, family, church, and the lessons that he has learned throughout his life.

Ivan Hodes (40) speaks with his conversation partner Tamekia Jackson (37) about his childhood, West Point education, commissioning as an officer, deployment to Iraq, refusing an unethical order, and remembers Thomas Martin, a classmate who was killed during his military...

Danielle Simonne Lucas (33) talks with her father, Robert A Moales (81), about his childhood, his military service and education as well as being a dad.

Proud Army BRAT and military community advocate Gracie Burgess (21) speaks with conversation partner Cole Johnston (26) about her childhood, an incident during deployment that led to her father's disability, her value of resilience, and her hopes for the future.

Charita Harmon (66) interviews her uncle Herman Boyd (82) about his service in this military, his experience as an African American man in the military, and what advice he would share with younger members in his family who are considering...

Morgan Zipf-Meister (39) interviews new friend Peg Ostlund (69) about her mother Mary Virginia Ryan Ostlund, who served as a Navy nurse during the Korean War.

Spouses Laura Bozeman (53) and James "Mike" Bozeman (62) discuss Mike's long and storied career with the United States military.

Laura Peterson (51) interviews her mother, Esther Rudge (79), about her memories of her life as an organist and music teacher.