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Hearing Voices: For the Fallen

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For Memorial Day, the voices of veterans remembering their comrades.


Green Beret and poet, Colonel Robert Schaefer, US Army, hosts the voices of veterans remembering their comrades:

We talk with troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reading their emails, poems, and journals, as part of the NEA project: “.”

We hear interviews from , an essay from , and the sounds of a Military Honor Guard, recorded by .

And we attend the daily “Last Post” ceremony by Belgian veterans honoring the WWI British soldiers who died defending a small town in western Belgium (produced by ).

Learn more at .