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Friends Joyce Richmond (83) and Jerry DeWitt [no age given] talk about Jerry's decades of military service, Joyce's experience being a Gold Star Mother, and their shared commitment to volunteerism.

Wallie Williams served in the Vietnam War as a medic. He discusses the trauma he experienced.

I asked my dad a few questions about his childhood and what it was like growing up.

I asked my mom some questions about her childhood and learned some things that I never knew. She had some rough times as a child. As I live with her today I can see how much she’s grown since she...

Richard Hammond was a physician in the army. Here’s his story.

Monica Ennis (61) has a conversation with her father, Wolfgang Lauck (94), about him growing up in Germany during World War II and immigrating to the United States.

This storyteller had the traumatic experience of being pursued romantically by a person in a position of power. As a young person desiring attention, he was unable to recognize what was happening at the time. Now, upon reflection, he is...

What my grandmas life was like.

Mother and son Fredrica Thompson (45) and Jermaine Dean (24) talk about aspirations, purpose, and survival and community.

Friends Bronwyn Miller [no age given] and Maleica [No Name Given] [no age given] discuss Maleica having HIV, survival, and hope.

My great grandfather's escape from North Korean forced conscripton.

In this recording, the speaker shares her experience of sexual assault while on a club retreat, and reflects on the thoughts and emotions surrounding this experience and others similar to it.

Jude Wilkes Smith (13) interviews his father, Todd Smith (53), about his first-hand experience with the September 11th, 2001 tragedy.

Ellie Smith (15) asks her mom's boyfriend, Magnus Lofstrom (57) to tell one of his favorite stories from backpacking around the world at 20 years old.

E.J. and his mother, Argy, relive her survival from cardiac arrest.

E.J. and his mom Argy speak about her surviving cardiac arrest

Charlie Bryant (99) tells his granddaughter Kenyatta Hills (32) about his life working as a farmworker and truck driver, about his love of God, and his love of cooking.

We talked about love, relationships between people of all kind, and strength through positive and negative experiences.

University experience of a freshmen

Matt Commo (55) and Ann Commo (53) live in Waterbury, Vermont which on July 10th-11th experienced historic flooding. They share the flood’s impacts on them, their story of rebuilding, and their perspectives on the future living in a floodplain.

On November 22, 2017 in La Grange Park, Illinois, Declan Joseph Hynes (13) interviewed Barbara Ann Potucek. Throughout the interview Declan talked to Barbara about her life through her childhood, teenage years, work, marriage, kids and grandkids. Her life was...

A mother's life is her young ones. Erika Gonzalez is a dedicated mother of 4 youngsters. Interview by her daughter Madison Holden, Erika gave some information about her kids and her life as a mother. Erika couldn't consider anything she...

I, Thomas Schmidt, interviewed a navy medic named Ken Smith. I talked to him about his childhood and about his life in the Navy.

Survival kit

This is a first-person account of what a young Iowa farm boy experienced after the escort carrier he was stationed on was sunk and the harrowing 48 hours spent floating in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued.