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show collects stories of people who encountered history's most important events for

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Bill fought with the Marines in the Vietnam War, and he was attached to a new unit designed

a surprise the North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong and destroyed them.

Bill's battalion fought in 27 different operations over the course of his 13-month tour of duty.

The second snippet is from an interview with Hope Harrison, a professor of history who

was on a flight to Berlin when she got word that the wall fell and arrived to see what

the people of Berlin were doing in the immediate aftermath.

She talks about how the Berlin Wall was forced open, thanks to the mistake of one German politician,

and describes in detail what the border patrol was doing at the wall after it fell.

So you can find this in many more episodes if you go to eyewitnesshistorypodcast.com, and

there you'll find instructions where if you think that you have a story to share that

you've personally witnessed something of historical importance, you can leave your own oral

history testimonial.

Finally, to help launch the show, we're doing a giveaway where the first five entrants

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