Summary
For Memorial Day, we have stories of conflict and devotion, and how they are told through memorials.
A well-known memorial in Washington, DC, pays tribute to the US service members who lost their lives in the Vietnam War, but few memorials honor the Vietnamese who fought alongside them, or the hundreds of thousands who came to the US in subsequent years. A new memorial project in the "Little Saigon" neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston aims to do just that. Also, Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean town of Arica to participate. But this is not your typical carnival. Most of the dances and music come from Bolivia for a celebration of Indigenous Aymara, Quechua, and Afro-Chilean identities. And, Yaroslav Simkiv has played the trumpet for over 50 years and is a recognizable figure in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Several times a day, he plays his instrument from the towering mayoral building in Lviv’s main square to announce the time of day. But these days, Simkiv has taken on a more serious role — bidding a musical farewell to Ukraine's fallen soldiers.
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| 0:00.0 | Has this ever happened to you? |
| 0:02.5 | You wake up, look at your phone, scroll through the news for a minute or two, and then think, wow, how did we get here? |
| 0:10.4 | Well, that's the question we tackle every week on NPR's ThruLine podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | We tell you the surprising stories of the people who made our history. |
| 0:19.7 | Carl Sagan was in people's living rooms talking about the wonders of the universe, making |
| 0:24.3 | science feel personal and important to an everyday person. |
| 0:29.9 | Listen to Thuringland from NPR, wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.6 | Music On Memorial Day, we honor American soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice. |
| 0:49.5 | There's one community now working to honor people who fought alongside the U.S. |
| 0:54.3 | What sets this memorial part is that is told from the perspective of Vietnamese. |
| 1:00.3 | Today on the world's stories of conflict and devotion and how they are told through memorials. |
| 1:04.9 | I'm Marco Werman. |
| 1:05.9 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:07.4 | Some memorials can also generate conflict. |
| 1:10.6 | Germans question whether to use small paving stones to remember Holocaust victims. |
| 1:15.8 | There really isn't a one-size-fits-all kind of answer to how to memorialize, and that's the important thing. |
| 1:21.1 | And in Taiwan, legends about some of the island's first inhabitants are proven through science. |
| 1:26.6 | They do not say we were here first. They |
| 1:30.0 | just say we were here before you. How we remember on this special Memorial Day edition of the |
| 1:35.6 | world. This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. And I'm Marco Wurman. We are glad you could be with |
| 1:42.7 | us on this Memorial Day, a holiday dating back to the Civil War that began simply with Flowers Place at the Gravesites of Soldiers. |
| 1:50.0 | Today on the show, we'll be looking at the many ways we memorialize the dead as well as somber moments in history. |
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