Military
We should dismantle our nuclear stash, not expand it
Across the U.S., ICBM silos are just sitting there. They would be the first targets if Russia launched an attack to try to limit our retaliatory capabilities.
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The Syrian civil war continues
Guests: Kareem Shaheen, Wendy Pearlman While no longer on the front pages of American newspapers, Syrian civil wa ...
Air Date: November 14, 2017
Listen 49:18Vietnam vets become ‘lung brothers’
Two veterans receive a lung each from the same donor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.
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Listen 4:3750 years later, sustaining vivid memories of Fishtowners killed in Vietnam
Five decades later, its caretakers worry about how much longer they can keep Cpl. Charles J. Glenn 3rd U.S.M.C. Memorial going.
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Listen 4:09Suicide crisis reaches beyond combat veterans
Veterans overall have a 22 percent higher risk of suicide than the general population, but women who served are more than twice as likely to take their own life.
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Offering homeless vets social support first — before housing
Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.
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Listen 5:55How online gaming communities kept two veterans from suicide
The military has a long history of using games in training, but troops also enjoy playing video games during their downtime, and some military gaming communities even help
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Listen 6:48Bowe Bergdahl's sentence: No prison time
During a sentencing hearing Friday, Bergdahl was sentenced to dishonorable discharge, loss of pay and benefits, and reduction in rank from sergeant to private.
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Mrs. D showed us how to conjugate the verb to be: "I am the teacher. You are the students. He is from Cambodia. She is from Vietnam."
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Vietnam’s paradox: Veterans and objectors alike can feel like ‘moral deserters’
We accepted that we were free to choose our life’s direction and obligated to choose morally, but our choices were all so unpalatable. There was no exit, no honorable option.
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Delaware World War II veteran honored posthumously
The family of late Private First Class James Davis, Jr., received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart medals on his behalf, 73 years after he was killed in action.
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Authoritarianism 101: Do not question the military
The lowest moment of Trump's latest Gold Star misfire came on Friday when his mouthpiece decreed from a White House podium that military brass should be exempt from scrutiny.
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To understand the Vietnam War, you’d have had to live through it
The Vietnam War impacted much more than its name implies. For people like my parents, we don’t talk about it. Like the American public, we’ve just accepted what’s been said.
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