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  • An introduction
    2017/12/01
    About a year ago, a man in Mesa, Ariz. emailed The Washington Post saying he had hundreds of letters written by a single family during World War II. When reporter Dan Lamothe began reading them, he couldn’t put the letters down.
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    3 分
  • 1941: The calm
    2017/12/06
    Meet the Eydes, four brothers from Rockford, Ill., living through the Great Depression. Even with two away at basic training, and Adolf Hitler’s conquest of Europe well underway, war still seemed a remote possibility. Until the unthinkable.
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    22 分
  • 1942: The start
    2017/12/13
    With the country at war, the Eyde brothers await their fates. Frank and Ralph inch closer to action, as they anxiously try to keep younger brother John away from the front lines.
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    17 分
  • Discussion: Part I
    2017/12/13
    The actors in this podcast are all veterans themselves. They join Dan to discuss their experiences reading the letters, and what is universal about the story of the Eyde family.
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    20 分
  • 1943-1944: Battles
    2017/12/20
    Frank has seen his first combat, as Ralph and John prepare for their own deployments. Facing war has the brothers engaged in intense battles -- both physical and mental.
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    18 分
  • 1944-1945: The end
    2017/12/27
    Back at home, Ralph and Frank struggle to recover and readjust to civilian life. Meanwhile, as the Allies move towards victory, John’s role in the war is just about to begin.
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    23 分
  • Discussion: Part II
    2017/12/27
    The voice actors join Dan to discuss the second half of the story, and how those in the armed services are shaped by their experiences with war.
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    24 分
  • 1946-2017: After
    2018/01/03
    The Eyde brothers continued writing each other long after the end of the war. In their letters over the next decades, it’s clear that their experiences in the war changed the course of their lives in dramatic, and in very different, ways.
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    19 分