31 episodes
VA Presents: My Life, My Story Veterans Health Administration
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- Society & Culture
If someone asked you to tell your life story, what would you say?
Since 2013, writers from the “My Life, My Story” project have asked more than 5,000 Veterans at VA hospitals around the United States to tell their life stories. With the Veteran’s permission, those stories go into the Veteran’s medical record so that VA health care providers can read them and get to know their patients better.
On this podcast, we’ll share some of our favorite stories from over the years.
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Kari: A big, wonderful, dysfunctional family
A smart, funny sailor talks about her journey from being a cook on a destroyer to a counselor on an aircraft carrier.
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Luke: Turnip soup, black bread
This amazing story details the day-to-day existence of a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II, and also what followed his liberation.
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Eugene: He helps me, and I help him
A veteran discovers at 20 years old something that upends everything he thought he knew about himself. But life goes on.
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Greg: Just keep pedaling
“You never know what other people are going through." That's a cornerstone idea for the "My Life, My Story" project, and it really rings true in this story about Greg.
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Kevin: Boring can be good
Where you start in life can go a long way toward determining where you end up as an adult. But it doesn’t have to.
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Florian: the story everyone wants to hear
The story that Florian tells in this episode is literally the stuff movies are (and have been) made of. Whether or not you know the history of the USS Indianapolis, this is a story worth hearing.