Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Nineteen million war veterans live in the United States, but each day, fifteen hundred of them die. And their stories die with them. Guest host Mary Tillotson looks at a Library of Congress effort to collect and catalogue the stories of civilians and soldiers from all the wars of the twentieth century.
Guests
- Peter Bartis Project Director, Veterans' History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Anthony Principi Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
- Louis Amster WWII Bombardier
- Lucille Tubbs WWII Nurse
- Joan De Munbrun WWII Photographer
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