StoryCorps

As StoryCorps' 20th anniversary approaches, we'll be looking back at important moments both in our history and the country's. This week — one more short story from our Military Voices Initiative. Sergeant Ocean Subiono tells his father, Russell Subiono, about what happened when he tried to enlist.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, StoryCorps will be revisiting some of our most memorable conversations from the past two decades. This week, we announce an upcoming special series with this short story from our Military Voices Initiative.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

There are people who help us at every stage of life –– from the moment we're born to our last breath. But at the end, who's helping us when we're gone? On the season finale of the StoryCorps Podcast, twin mortician brothers look back on a life of caring for the dead.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

When a train ride to work veers into a life or death situation, two strangers become an important part of each other's lives.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

50 years ago, most of the nation was glued to "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings that would uncover major abuses of power by the Nixon administration. In this episode – how a decision to speak up blew the lid off the largest political scandal in American history.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and her partner Felipa Deleon grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In this episode, they share the long and sometimes painful journey of fighting for their love, their community, and their ancestors...all while making history.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Jason Romero was given a serious diagnosis. But to stop running from it he'd have to do something no one had ever done before.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

In 1920, a father made a split-second decision to save his newborn's life by taking her to an incubator exhibit at Coney Island. We meet her in this episode, and she shares how a sideshow attraction saved her life, and thousands of others, when hospitals couldn't, ultimately changing the course of American medicine.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy