• “My dad in Cuba said, 'When you go there you're going to ask for George.'”

    Jose "Pepe" Noriega , one of over 14,000 children who came to the U.S. as part of Operation Pedro Pan, speaks with Lynn Guarch Pardo about the role her father, Jorge "George" Guarch, played in the historic airlift.

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    Recorded in Coral Gables, FL

  • “She didn't have very much warmth about her...”

    Don Michaels tells his daughter Jennifer about his fifth grade teacher.

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    Recorded in Bellefonte, PA

  • “The train stopped and I thought we were somewhere like Colorado...”

    Bud Norton tells his nephew Tim Locher about his childhood adventures growing up in Kansas.

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    Recorded in Kansas City, MO

  • “We were together for 22 years...”

    Barbara Cattano remembers her partner Alena Sesinova who was killed in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “I found out what girls were...”

    Jim Crane tells his daughter Missy Worden what he liked best about college.

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    Recorded in Atlanta, GA

  • “It was a really wonderful, amazing world that came crashing down.”

    Stefan Lynch Strassfeld talks to his friend Beth Teper about growing up with gay parents in the 1980s.

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    Recorded in San Francisco, CA

  • “So, I get to ask you the questions today...”

    Sean Lennon interviews his mom, Yoko Ono.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “I put an ad in the local paper and offered to cook Thanksgiving dinner for twelve people.”

    Scott Macaulay remembers how, 25 years ago, he started an annual holiday dinner for strangers who have nowhere else to go.

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    Recorded in Melrose, MA

  • “I thought he was the goofiest guy I had ever met...”

    Granvilette Kestenbaum remembers her husband, Howard, who died in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “Some guys couldn't handle it.”

    Vietnam veterans Gary Redlinski (L) and Glen Fruendt (R) remember working in Graves Registration at an Army mortuary near Saigon.

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    Recorded in St. Louis, MO