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Max Voelz

Max Voelz met his future wife, Kimberly, on Valentine’s Day, while they were training to work in Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit — the Army’s elite bomb squad.

Both Max and Kim were sent to Iraq in 2003. One night, Max called in the location of an explosive and Kim was sent to disarm it. She did not survive the mission.

Max sat down for StoryCorps to remember her.
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Originally aired May 27, 2011, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Top photo: Kimberly Voelz at work. Courtesy of Max Voelz.

Alex Fernandez and Noe Rueda

Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (right) grew up poor in Little Village, a neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. He is the oldest of four siblings raised by a single mom. As a boy, Noe watched his family struggle and decided to help.

At StoryCorps, Noe tells his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (left), about launching his first business venture selling discarded cleaning products from a nearby factory.

Click here to watch “Making It,” an animation of Noe’s story.

Originally aired April 15, 2011, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

John Klein and Bernice Flournoy

John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.

George Lengel

George Lengel grew up in Roebling, New Jersey, during the 1940s. Back then, it was a company town owned by the John A. Roebling’s Sons Company. Nearly every member of George’s family, including his mother and grandmother, worked in the steel and wire mills.

The Lengel family helped produce wire rope that supported scores of suspension bridges including the Golden Gate Bridge and the original elevators in the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building.

George went on to become a history teacher; he taught in New Jersey public schools for 31 years before retiring.

At StoryCorps, George remembered his childhood in Roebling, and the one man who stood above all others in a town full of tough men—his father.

Originally aired April 8, 2011 on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Sister Vincent Cecire

Sister Vincent Cecire, 94, tells her friend Sister Catherine Garry how she fell in love with baseball.

Originally aired April 1, 2011, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Dee Dickson

Dee Dickson remembers trying to get a job as a shipyard electrician in the 1970s.

Originally aired February 18, 2011 on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Majid Al-Bahadli and his wife Diana Klatte

Majid Al-Bahadli and his wife, Diana Klatte, remember how they met.

Mary Van Beke and her son Charles

94-year-old Mary Van Beke tells her son, Charles, about growing up in the 1920s.

Carl McNair

On the morning of January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after lifting off. All seven crew members were killed.

McNair_challenger_crewRonald McNair was one of the astronauts aboard Challenger that day (Challenger crew is pictured at left; Carl is in the front row, far right). A graduate of MIT who grew up in the small farming community of Lake City, South Carolina, McNair was only the second African American to visit space.

His older brother, Carl (pictured above), talked about how Ronald’s journey from the rural South to outer space began with an act of courage at the local public library.

Click here to watch “Eyes on the Stars,” a StoryCorps animation of Carl’s remembrance.

 Originally aired January 28, 2011, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Queen Jackson and Debra MacKillop

Queen Jackson (R) tells her case manager, Debra MacKillop (L), how she became homeless.

Originally aired December 16, 2011 on NPR’s Morning Edition.