Veteran Issues - Interviews and Music
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Your Radio Hosts: Bill McDonald & Donn "Doc" Dade
Broadcasting from California's Big Central Valley
Interviews with people of interest in the veteran world.
Scheduled broadcasts to begin for these guests in March 2004
Each interview will play for one week beginning with the date shown.
Brian Wizard -Nam vet, Noble Prize Nominee, author,
singer, artist, film maker
List of his books include "Permission to Kill",
"Permission to Live", "Back in The World" "Heaven on Earth", "Shindara"
His documentary film "Thunderhawks" - his musical CD "Brain Wizard Sings for his
Supper". He talks to us from his mountain top home in eastern Oregon.
Broadcast Date -
TBA
Brian Wizard with Bill McDonald
Summer of 2003 in Elk Grove, CA
Bruce E. Carlson - Author & Aero Scout
Helicopter Pilot with the Seventeenth Cav.
His novel "Red Bird Down" is a classic helicopter
story of the Vietnam helicopter war. He was shot down several times and received
numerous awards for gallantry, Among these awards are three Distinguished Flying
Crosses and a Bronze Star.
He is now a retired ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. He was on
the phone with us from Nebraska.
29 March 2004
Bruce Carlson in his formal attire
Tony Lazzarini - Award Winning playwright
and Vietnam veteran author
His book "Highest Tradition" is a basic verbal map and
guide to what it was like to be on a Huey crew during the Vietnam War in 1966-67
in and around Chu Chi in "A" Company "Little Bears" - one of the
most decorated helicopter units in the war.
He now resides in northern California and races cars as a part-time hobby.
1 March 2004
Bill McDonald & Tony Lazzarini
New Mexico Book Signing Party - February 11, 2004
Don and Annette Hall - Film makers, authors
This husband wife team have created one of the most
interesting documentary films about the Vietnam War called " Silent Victory"
about the Long Range Patrol Airborne unit Don served with in Vietnam. There
non-fiction book of his experiences in the war and their life together is titled
""I Served" - and makes for great reading for both men and women. It is more
than just a Vietnam War book - it involves their lives before and after that
war. They did this interview from their home Washington.
Broadcast Date TBA
April 1999
Executive producer of "Silent Victory" Annette
Hall
with F51st LRSU honor contingent at the memorial service for Col. William C.
Maus
Don Hall with General Norman Schwarzkopf
During filming of documentary "Silent Victory"
Patty Biegun Hancock - Artist, writer,
photojournalist, wife of a USMC veteran.
She just completed her contributions to two wonder veteran
books - "Purple Hearts - Vietnam War Poetry" where she wrote a wonderful
introduction, designed the great book cover and added an after thought in
the back of Bill McDonald's the book; she also added some stories to Jan
Hornung's newest book Spinning Tales. She is the wife of Vietnam Veteran folk
artist Larry "Aurence" Hancock - whose was featured in the documentary film "In
The Shadow of the Blade". She talks about her new book project and her husbands
art. She is interviewed from her Demorest, Georgia home in the mountains.
5 April 2004
USMC Veteran Folk Artist Larry "Aurence" and his wife Patty "Biegun" Hancock.
Bill McDonald performing their wedding vows using old Huey 091 as the altar.
Taken during the filming of the documentary "In The Shadow of the Blade"
At their home in Demorest, Georgia - October 2002.
Sarge Lintecum Old combat tested Vietnam
veteran sings his "Vietnam Blues"
Sarge has created some of the finest blues music ever
recorded and his CD is a tribute to all us Vietnam veterans. We play selections
from his CD and interview him about how he got inspired to write those songs. He
talks to us from Phoenix, Arizona.
15 March 2004
Bill with old combat tested "Sarge"
Austin, Texas November 7, 2003
Howard Stansell - Singer whose music
honors veteran from all wars!
He sounds like Willie Nelson and his songs are on the
cutting edge - he honors veterans of all wars with his creative music and words.
He has sung for veteran gatherings from The Wall to Angel Fire. He talks to us
from his home Los Lumas, NM. We play some of his cuts from his CD "I Remember...
A Tribute To Those Who Serve" and also air parts of our interview with him.
19 April 2004
Gregory A. Helle - Author and founder of the
PTSD Alliance
Author of the book "Walk In Hell" is interviewed about his
book, his experiences in Vietnam and what lead him to his work with PTSD
veterans. He is a victim of a sexual assault in Vietnam and talks about his
efforts to reach out an help others who have experienced the same kind of fate.
He talks to Donn and Bill from his home in Iowa.
8 March 2004
Authors - Bruce Carlson, Bill McDonald, Tony Lazzarini and
Greg Helle
New Mexico Book Signing Party - February 11, 2004
Linda DeShon of The Hill Top Singers - USO singer
who performed in Vietnam
Linda who was a member of the original Hill Top Singers
still sings and records today with her sister Jeanie.
Their CD "In Spirit At The Wall" is a great folk singing tribute to veterans and
to their life as entertainers in the far east for veterans. Linda and Jeanie
were featured in the documentary film "In The Shadow of the Blade" and sing in
the film. Linda talked to us from her home in Nashville, TN. We offer some
selections from their CD and parts of our interview with Linda.
12 April 2004
In Vietnam in the late 1960's
Linda and Jeanie with Bill
Austin, Texas November 7, 2003
Schedule Broadcasts
1 March 2004 Tony
8 March 2004 Greg Helle (Hell-e)
15 March 2004 Sarge Lintecum
22 March 2004 ENGINEERS “interviews”
29 March 2004 Bruce Carlson
5 April 2004 Pattie Handcock
12 April 2004 Linda Deshawn
19 April 2004 Howard Stansell
26 April 2004 LTG Stroup (3stars) & Engineers
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