Harvey Hilbert
Army veteran Harvey Hilbert was sent to Vietnam in 1966.
One night his company went on a mission in the South Vietnamese jungle.
It was the last night Harvey fought in the war.
Originally aired November 9, 2012 on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Bishop Ricardo Ramirez
On a fall day in 1981, Ricardo Ramirez accepted an offer to become a bishop in San Antonio, Texas.
At StoryCorps, he remembered the dozens of phone calls he made that day. One of the first was to his grandmother Panchita Espitia, a woman who didn’t let being 90 slow her down.
Originally aired June 29, 2012 on NPR’s Morning Edition.