For God and Country

Every year tens of thousands of people raise their hands and swear an oath to protect and serve their country in the United States Military. The purpose of this interview is to highlight one of those individuals and give listeners...

One Man’s Military Service

We discussed some aspects of my father’s military life and important life lessons he learned.

Richard Hanzlik – NAS Meridian Mississippi

Richard Hanzlik was a Navy Senior Petty Officer at the NAS Meridian Navy Base in Mississippi. He served during Vietnam.

Dale Gass WW2 and Korea

Dale talked about his time in the Army from being drafted to being called back for the Korean War.

Who do you look up to most
November 24, 2018 App Interview

Renee Metz interviews Ricco Reyes about his life; what he loved about his life, and what he wishes he had done differently.

Interview with my great-grandfather

Fred Tejada discusses his childhood in the Philippines in the 1940s and the opportunities he had been given from it

World War II — Okinawa Shore Leave

Harry S. Scott, born January 1922 and one of the last surviving veterans of WWII, tells a story of late in the war. He was an ensign and then LTJG aboard the Y.M.S. 387 (yard minesweeper) off Okinawa in 1945,...

Interview with Captain Sandra Johnston of the U.S. Navy (my amazing mom)

Captain Johnston talks about her experiences being in the Navy for the past 30 years. She tells of her different deployments, especially those on the hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, during the Gulf War and during a humanitarian mission to...

Steven Akins, Dolphus Putman, , , and

1993 interview of Dolphus Lawrence Putman, the son of an Alabama coal miner who was killed in a mining accident in 1927, relating to his growing up as one of 8 children being raised by a single mother during the...

Bill the veteran
December 15, 2023 App Interview

Bill is my 90 year old neighbor who is a veteran. He served in the U.S. army in the Korean War and lived very differently than how we do today. Bill shares his accomplishments, regrets, and life story in this...

Eldon Carl Swanson Jr., part 2 stories

Cousins Jennifer Swanson and Carla Swanson Gawthrop's second interview with Jenny's uncle/Carla's dad as the extended family is gathered for a wedding. Eldon Carl Swanson Jr covers how he got into the Navy, how he and Dee afforded a steak...

How the navy shaped my dad into the person he is today.

On a Febuary 3, 2018. I, Kendall Mullen, interviewed Kent Mullen, my father, about his time in the army. I learned some important lessons on how the navy shaped my father into the kind loving, and responsible person he is...

Tell me about poppy again

A quick story of how Theda met the love of her life during world war two while serving in the navy.

PTSD and Me: How Poetry saved me from Suicide

Erika Land and Aissatou Sidime-Blanton discuss that PTSD the Erika suffered as part of her U.S. military service as a pharmacy technician and how poetry, and producing her one-woman play (“PTSD and Me/At ease. Not today PTSD.”), has helped her...