The Moth Radio Hour: Veterans' Day Special

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A special Veterans Day edition of The Moth Radio Hour. After returning from active duty in the Middle East, a marine searches for new meaning; a 97 year old woman describes training young men for WWII combat as a WASP; a father being deployed to Iraq must find a way to explain it to his children; and a WWII soldier from Wisconsin serves with the segregated 93rd Infantry Division in the South Pacific. This special hour is hosted by The Moth's Producing Director, Sarah Austin Jenness. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Storytellers:

Mike Scotti finds new meaning after returning from active duty in the Middle East.

Dawn Seymour becomes part of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), training young men stateside to enter WWII overseas.

Bill Krieger tucks his daughter in at night before being deployed to Iraq.

William Cole serves as a radio operator in the 93rd Infantry Division, a segregated unit, in the South Pacific.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This autumn, fall for moth stories as we travel across the globe for our main stages.
0:05.6	We're excited to announce our fall lineup of storytelling shows from New York City to Iowa City,
0:10.9	London, Nairobi, and so many more. The moth will be performing in a city near you,
0:15.6	featuring a curation of true stories. The moth mainstaged shows feature five tellers,
0:20.1	who share beautiful, unbelievable, hilarious, and often powerful true stories. The Moth Mainstage shows feature five tellers who share beautiful, unbelievable, hilarious,
0:23.0	and often powerful true stories on a common theme.
0:26.0	Each one told reveals something new
0:27.6	about our shared connection.
0:29.4	To buy your tickets or find out more about our calendar,
0:32.1	visit the Moth.org slash mainstage.
0:34.9	We hope to see you soon.
0:51.8	Music slash main stage. We hope to see you soon. From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Sarah Austin Janess from The Moth, and I'll be your host this time.
0:56.2	This episode is devoted to American veterans. The four stories you'll hear in this hour from the battlefield and behind the front lines were told live at the moth without notes in theaters across our country.
1:09.0	A soldier and his family cling to routine during wartime,
1:12.7	a female pilot and an African-American Marine remember World War II, and our first storyteller,
1:18.7	Mike Scottie, battles post-war darkness after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
1:24.1	Mike told this story in Albany, New York, at a moth night we produced with public radio station WAMC.
1:30.8	A word of caution, this story includes frank descriptions of the effects of combat.
1:36.2	Here's Mike Scottie, live at the moth.
1:42.3	So I can still remember the sound of the front door slamming behind me in my old apartment.
1:49.7	It's a small studio in New York City.
1:52.7	And I remember I had just gotten home from a run and I threw my keys up on the counter
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