The Fateful Night During WWII Cecil Wax Met God
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Marilyn Jensen tells the harrowing story of when her father went on a supply run amidst a German bombing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories. |
| 0:48.1 | And not long ago, we spent some time at our great flagship station, W.H.O. |
| 0:52.8 | in Des Moines, Iowa, a giant stick in the middle of this great country, |
| 0:57.8 | an I-Heart station. And we've been on that station for years and telling stories. We decided to have a |
| 1:04.4 | storytelling contest and asked folks to send in their stories. We drove up to Des Moines and, well, we did it in a beautiful restaurant with a few hundred |
| 1:13.7 | people. |
| 1:14.7 | And we feature right now one of the women who submitted her story to that event about her |
| 1:20.3 | father, Thiesel Wax, who had a surreal encounter during World War II. |
| 1:26.4 | Here is Marilyn Jensen. |
| 1:32.4 | My dad, Cecil Wax, was the family storyteller. He had an endless supply of stories about scratching |
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