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Tag: Veterans
Marathon of Programming Remembers Veterans on Memorial Day
Join MLPBS for an eight hour marathon of programming that tells the stories of our Veterans, their heroism and their service to the nation. It all culminates in the 30th annual Memorial Day Concert from Washington DC at 8:00 pm. Watch with us, as we celebrate these stories of service. For stories about our local…
Honor Flight Takes to Skies Again
Next Saturday, May 18th is Armed Forces Day, one of the days when our nation honors our military heroes who have served. One group that takes that mission to heart is the North Country Honor Flight, which over the past 6 years, has flown nearly 400 veterans to Washington to visit the war memorials built…
Battlefield Memorial Secures Funding
The Town of Plattsburgh and the Clinton County American Legion gathered recently along the Lake Champlain waterfront to announce they will be receiving 250-thousand dollars from the state of New York,with the help of North Country Assemblyman Billy Jones, to begin work on phase one of the Battlefield Memorial Gateway Park, a new park along…
This Week on MLJ | February 15th
This week we feature a new film premiering next week tells the story of a young marine from Mineville, New York, who died in Vietnam. The documentary also reveals the unusual memorial his friends and neighbors have preserved for 50-years in his honor. Plus, the Adirondack region and village of Lake Placid are mourning the…
Local Towns Honor Vets
This weekend tens of thousands of volunteers are laying wreaths on the graves of veterans across the nation, our Jack LaDuke has the story of how two communities here in the North Country are honoring their hometown heroes who died fighting in World War 2. In Malone, the former Army Reserve Center, has new owners…
Volunteers Lay Wreaths on Veteran’s Graves across The Nation
Next weekend, hundreds of thousands of wreaths will be laid on the graves of Veterans all across the country. An idea that started with a wreath maker in Maine, to place Christmas wreaths on every grave at Arlington National Cemetery, and has now spread across the nation. Pete Siskavich spent this week marking the graves…
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…
Interview with Veteran Chris Paiser
We talk with Chris Paiser from Morrisonville, New York, one of the soldiers we featured in our MLPBS documentary on the challenges veterans can face when they return home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Chris joins us to talk about how his life has changed, and the new career path he’s on to help his fellow…
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…