Where they fought.
Who they fed.
How they ate.
And the meals they missed most.
Image: The logo for Service: Veteran Stories of Hunger & War looks like a faded photograph with half the face of a Black soldier looking forward, and a retreating soldier walking out of frame.
How do our food stories change during wartime?
SERVICE: Veteran Stories of Hunger & War takes listeners back in time and around the globe, as veterans share their war+ food stories in a soundscaped time capsule.
In each episode, one veteran or wartime volunteer takes us through the sights, sounds, and smells of their childhood. We follow along the what brought them to training camps and front lines. And we hear how they ate at dining room tables and mess tents, all along the way.
Because everybody eats. And so as we listen to veterans amidst the sounds of farms and factories, barges and battlefields, and home kitchens and camp messes, we see ourselves in their stories, and our part in the collective whole.
Service premiered Veterans Day - November 11, 2019 - with iHeartRadio. It has been discontinued from iHeartRadio’s lineup with the reduction of budgets due to the Covid-19 virus. We are currently look for partnership and grants to continue with our Korean War season. Stay tuned.
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“War may be good for a nation’s economy, but it’s horrible for a nation’s education.”
— Matthew Lynch, the edvocate
We have Common Core-aligned history lesson plans for Service! Find them here.
