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The Moth

Veterans Day: The Moth Podcast

The Moth

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.625.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired on November 12, 2021. If you've been moved by a story this year, text 'GIVE25' to 78679 to make a donation to The Moth today. This week, two stories honoring Veterans, and a can’t-miss interview with 98-year-old WWII Vet Tom Sitter. This episode is hosted by Jon Goode. Storytellers: Scott Young honors the legacy of his Vietnam Veteran father. Tom Sitter retells a hair-raising tale from his WWII service. If you've been moved by a story this year, text 'GIVE25' to 78679 to make a donation to The Moth today. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:22.9

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0:26.4

It's time to do your best work with your new Adobe Acrobat Studio.

0:34.4

Welcome to the Moth podcast.

0:36.4

I'm John Good, your host for this week.

0:39.4

Originally coined his armistice day by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, the day we now hold as Veterans Day is a day that elevates and celebrates those who stood a post around the world in defense of freedom.

0:53.0

Every year, on November the 11th, we remember and honor their commitment, service, and sacrifice.

1:00.4

Our first story this week comes from Scott Young.

1:03.4

Scott told this story at a grand slam in London, where the theme of the night was lost and found.

1:09.1

Here's Scott, live at the moth. If I'm complimented at all in my physical appearance, it's usually one of two things.

1:28.7

My thick, full beard, or my beefy muscular legs.

1:34.4

I get both from my mother.

1:38.0

She's only five, too, but she is built thick, and has her suitness, many men would envy.

1:45.0

I grew up to the accurate smell of the wax she boiled mornings to remove the whiskers from her chin.

1:51.0

Yet all he ever heard growing up was just like your father.

1:56.0

Now, I knew that wasn't physical because my dad's six-four and had a baby smooth face,

2:00.0

and as my mother liked to say, had to run around in the shower to get wet.

2:03.2

He was so skinny.

2:07.4

Not the genes I got.

2:09.8

So what was it about me that made me like my father?

2:13.8

It's hard being compared to a ghost.

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