The following shows aired in May 2009. Click on the show date in the left column to listen to that show. Files are in MP3 format.
| 5/2/2009 | Military Writers Society of America. Joyce Faulkner is President of the Military Writers Society of America, an association of more than eight-hundred authors, poets, and artists, drawn together by the common bond of military service. Most of their members are active duty military, retirees, or military veterans. A few are lifelong civilians who have chosen to honor our military through their writings or their art. Their only core principle is a love of the men and women who defend this nation, and a deeply personal understanding of their sacrifice and dedication.
Also on the show: Keith Famie from Detroit our Greatest Generation and Elliott Storm, author of These Scars Are Sacred |
| 5/9/2009 | Happy Mother’s Day. Veterans Radio takes a look a Mothers and Women in the military. Host Dale Throneberry talks with Col. Christine Cook, United States Army Reserves, assigned to the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, about her deployment to Kuwait and the effect it had on her and her family. Col Cook has written a book about her year in Kuwait entitled Living on Tattooine (A.K.A. Kuwait). We also have Amy Goodpaster Strebe, author of Flying for Her Country, The American and Soviet Pilots of World War II. A fascinating and great story about the women flyers during WWII. These amazing women did everything that was asked of them. The American pilots were members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Their missions included, ferrying aircraft and towing targets, test flights and being flight instructors here in the states. While their Soviet counterparts were flying actual combat missions against the Germans in defense of their homeland. |
| 5/16/2009 | What’s Going On?. Many things are happening in Congress and the new administration that will affect many of us. Here’s your chance to find out “What’s going on?” Among our guests this week is the Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA). The Committee recently approved five bills that would improve benefits and services to veterans provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs
We will also be welcoming the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut and BIG Veteran’s Advocate, Richard Blumenthal. Mr. Blumenthal has been at the forefront in the fight for veterans benefits and veterans issues not only in Connecticut but throughout New England and the country. And he is fellow veteran having served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Also joining us on our call-in line was Elliott Storm author of These Scars Are Sacred. |
| 5/23/2009 | Special Encore Presentation for Memorial Day 2009. Each year more than 4,000,000 people come to visit. More than 300,000 reside here. Over 500 more are added each week. Near-mythological stories of valor, commitment, sacrifice and patriotism surround you as you walk the grounds. It is the location of the Tombs of the Unknown Soldiers. The official name is Arlington National Cemetery, but known simply as Arlington.
Join host Gary Lillie and guest Michael Patterson, Webmaster and founder of the website dedicated to the Arlington National Cemetery www.arlingtoncemetery.net, as we honor those who have died for our country and for freedom. Together we will learn more about the best known of the special places reserved for them. Join your host Dale Throneberry this Saturday as we talk about the stories and issues that are so important to all of us. |
| 5/30/2009 | Teaching the Vietnam War…the students’ perspective. Each year Pioneer High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) teacher Brent Richards invites Vietnam veterans into his classroom to bring alive the Vietnam War. It began with the veterans addressing individual classrooms, one after the other, which did not give enough time to satisfy the imagination or the questions of the student—and, it was emotionally draining on the veterans. So Richards and the veterans began to have lunch several times a year to debrief after the previous presentations and brainstorm what would improve them.
After the last Vietnam Veterans’ Day in the Pioneer High School classroom Gary Lillie asked Brent Richards if he and some of his students would appear on Veterans Radio to hear what the students had to say about the presentations. Richards quickly agreed. Tune in this Saturday for a delightful and educational interview with Pioneer High School teacher Brent Richards and the three high school girls who volunteered to go on-air. |
