Service: Veteran Stories of Hunger & War
In the war and food podcast Service: Veteran Stores of Hunger and War, veterans take us from their hometowns to the frontlines and back again in sound-immersive first-person storytelling narratives.
A co-production with iHeartMedia from 2019-the Covid Collapse of 2020, we are currently looking for collaboration to produce our next Korean War season. Interested? email Jacqueline@WordsFoodArt.com
Educators!
We have common-core aligned lesson plans available for 4 episodes. Learn more here.
All Episodes
“So… What Did World War II Change, Really?”
How did our World War 2 veterans change history forever? And what foods came out of World War II that we still eat today? Historians Myke Cole and Anastacia Marx de Salcedo join our WW2 veterans’ voices to connect some dots.
“All's Fair in War and Lasting Love”
From dining room tables to D-Day, our World War 2 veterans share stories of their wartime sweethearts on this special Valentine’s Day episode.
“When You Look Like the Enemy...”
Japanese American citizens were prisoners of war in the U.S. during WW2. The Japanese American soldiers of the 442nd “Purple Heart Battalion” are the most decorated outfit in military history to this day. Lawson Ichiro Sakai shares a gripping story covering it all. (Free history lesson plans for this episode!
“Food Service Within the Service”
What did it take for an African American sailor to achieve rank in WW2? Navy veteran William Walker shares hardships and triumphs in his rise to Chief Petty Officer 1st Class, how soldiers, sailors, and civilians were fed in the Pacific, and how his Service was received on the homefront after the war ended. (Get free World War II history lesson plans for this episode, too!)