Steve: Mein Freund
If someone asked you to tell your life story, where would you begin?For a lot of people, the answer to that question is "I was born in … "When we interview people, we often start there, too. "Where we...
31 Elo 20209min
George: A Voice To Be Heard
Not long after the "My Life, My Story" project launched in 2013, it was decided that Veterans' stories should be written in the first-person. The reason is that we wanted a veteran's voice to shine th...
31 Elo 202020min
Bibiana: A Teenage Soldier
A central goal of the "My Life, My Story" project is to help VA medical staff get to know their patients better. Doctors and nurses are always pressed for time, but by reading these thousand-word life...
31 Elo 202011min
Harry: A Guard, a Donkey, and a Cart
Almost 94,000 Americans were held as prisoners-of-war in Europe during World War II. In this episode of the "My Life, My Story" podcast, you'll hear the story of one of them, Harry, who managed to esc...
31 Elo 20208min
Simon: When Work Is Your Hobby
If you were asked to tell your life story, what would you talk about the most?Your family? Your career? Love? Loss? That one day in your 20s that "changed everything"?When people first hear about the ...
31 Elo 20209min
Zack: The Gambler
A hospital room might not seem like an ideal spot for someone to tell their life story.There are all those beeping machines. Nurses are popping in and out on their rounds. And the patients themselves ...
31 Elo 20208min
Carl: Losing a Friend
Imagine. You're a patient in the hospital, maybe recovering from a knee surgery or pneumonia. You're lying in bed, watching something boring on TV, when you hear a knock at the door. "Come in," you sa...
31 Elo 20209min
