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Author: Mike Hansen
Reviving History
In honor of Memorial Day this week our Veterans Coming Home Series Producer Michael Hansen has the story of an Army Veteran who on a visit to a cemetery found a gravesite almost entirely overgrown with sod & moss. When he peeled it back, he discovered it was a veteran’s marker. That’s how Carl Benware’s…
Local vets fly to see the memorials that honor them for the first time
North Country Honor Flight took 15 Veterans to Washington, D.C. on October 20th to visit the memorials in their honor. Hundreds gathered on the Oval of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base to give the veterans a huge send-off, including a parade to Plattsburgh International Airport. The veterans were greeted by more than 100 people…
VCH – My Lai Memorial
One of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War was the My Lai Massacre. On the 50th anniversary this past fall a Memorial Exhibit was put on display at the Grange Hall in Whallonsburg, New York to remember the thousands of Vietnamese people who were executed, and the cover-up. Veterans Coming Home Producer Michael Hansen…
Turning A Mess Into A Message
When he was young, planes flew over Scott Aubin’s house everyday out of Plattsburgh’s Strategic Air Command base. He later joined the United States Air Force and became a crew chief. A pair of traumatic accidents while he served left Scott with an alcohol problem and increasingly unable to deal with life at home. He…
A Vietnam Vet’s Love of Photography
We meet a Vietnam veteran, who discovered a passion for photography, that after the war, turned into a career. Watch Michael Hansen’s Veterans Coming Home story on Clifford Oliver, who as a African-American, faced racism in the Deep South during his time in the service.
The Falling and The Rising: New Seagle Music Colony Opera
Seagle Music Colony is excited to be a co-commissioner of this important new opera that explores the experiences of wounded US Veterans — The Falling and The Rising. Based on the real-life experiences of returning veterans, The Falling and The Rising follows the triumph and struggle of veterans returning home from deployment. The opera explores…
Veterans Coming Home | When I Returned
Vets find telling their stories through comics is a way to share their experiences. Watch more original Mountain Lake PBS stories about veterans on our website: https://mountainlake.org//2024dev/vets Veterans Coming Home is made possible with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with local support from the Cloudsplitter Foundation and Twinstate Technologies.
Vets Coming Home | Rebuilding
The conflict in Vietnam was perhaps the most defining and divisive periods of American history since the Civil War. It touched the lives of every adult alive during that time period, whether they were in favor of the war, opposed to it, fighting in it, or some combination of all three. “Rebuilding” shares how the…
Veterans Coming Home: Protecting Their True Land
With Memorial Day approaching, as we remember those who have given their lives in service to our country, many Americans are unaware of the large number of Native Americans who have served in our nation’s military. Many may know of the Code Talkers in World Wars One and Two, but there are thousands of other…
An Unique War Memorial
We look at a new documentary on an unusual memorial preserved for nearly 50-years by the community of Port Henry, NY in memory of a Marine killed in Vietnam. Watch the trailer for the film called “When I Come Home” — here: https://vimeo.com/242862950 Also, check out the Facebook fanpage for the documentary which includes a…