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Memorial in Sound

6 segments

Memorial in Sound 18 min

A State of Abstinence 9 min

Life, the Universe and Everything 32 min

Gentrification and the Black Middle Class 32 min

No-Impact Exercise 14 min

The Department of Peace 14 min

For Memorial Day, Dave Isay brings a personal tribute to one American soldier killed in Iraq from his two sisters recorded at the StoryCorps booth. Also: historian Ken Davis on the Civil War origins of the holiday; a proposal for a United States Department of Peace; class conflict in African American neighborhoods; "no-impact" exercise; and astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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