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Read More »Florida Voices | Amanda Mills, Lessons for My Children
Find more Florida Voices in our weekly podcast, The Point. Know someone whose story is worth telling? Email news@wuft.org.
Read More »WUFT’s Biggest Stories of 2017
Hurricane Irma, Richard Spencer, rescued dogs and more.
Read More »Florida Voices: Two Veterans on Veterans Day
On Veterans Day, we hear from two United States veterans who served: Victoria Van Buren during the Vietnam War and Matthew Burke during the post-9/11 conflicts.
Read More »Florida Voices: Vietnam Veterans | Tony Magnifico, Marines, 1967 to 1969
Tony Magnifico is a U.S. Marine veteran of Vietnam, boxing trainer, retired construction worker and husband to a Vietnamese woman he met on a return trip to the country.
Read More »Florida Voices: A Florida Student’s Memoir of Growing Up In Post-War Vietnam
A UF student recounts what it was like growing up in Vietnam after the war. Read his story at WUFT.org.
Read More »Florida Voices: Vietnam Veterans | John Menoski, Air Force, 1972 to 1975
His plane once erupted up into a ball of fire as it hit the runway following a bombing run into North Vietnam — forcing him and another serviceman to eject — but that didn’t stop John Menoski from returning to combat missions the following week. He also once flew 40 missions …
Read More »Florida Voices: Vietnam Veterans | John Lavelle, Army, 1971 to 1972
While much of the United States population had by 1971 turned against the war in Vietnam, as well as many of those who fought it, John Lavelle experienced a touching piece of support from his daughter’s fifth-grade class. They collected food and other necessities to support orphanages in the Asian …
Read More »Florida Voices: Vietnam Veterans | Fred Judkins, Army, 1970 to 1971
Having had the opportunity to see a screening of a part of Ken Burns’ film on the Vietnam War earlier this year, Fred Judkins had this warning for any veteran of that war with post-traumatic stress disorder: “Be very careful, because it’s very, very intense.” Judkins served in an Army …
Read More »Florida Voices: Vietnam Veterans | David Willkomm, Army, 1970 to 1971
David Willkomm served toward the end of the American ground-based conflict in Vietnam, and by then, he witnessed a sad breakdown of G.I. morale within his unit. Drug use, racial tension, and alcoholism were all too common, according to Willkomm, who later became a counselor at the Gainesville Veterans Affairs …
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