StoryCorps 2025
The StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative creates opportunities for veterans, service members, and military families to share meaningful stories about service, sacrifice, resilience, and life beyond the military. Through guided recorded conversations, participants preserve personal histories while contributing to a growing national archive of military experiences.
By amplifying authentic voices and fostering understanding across communities, the initiative honors those who serve and the families who stand beside them. In partnership with veteran-serving organizations nationwide, Military Voices recordings help ensure that these stories are preserved, celebrated, and shared for future generations.
September 2025
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Roe Johns and Tracy Johns
Tracy Johns (52) interviews her father Roe Johns (72) about their shared military service, working through hardship, memories from childhood that shaped them, and their hopes for the future.
Mike Usher & Nadia Clark
Longtime friends Mike Usher [no age given] and Nadia Clark [no age given] meet to discuss their military service journeys. Mike served as an Air Force airborne linguist specializing in Korean, while Nadia transitioned from police work to become an Army Reserve officer in human resources. Their conversation explores family military backgrounds, recruitment experiences, training pipelines, deployments, and the decision-making process around military careers.
Bernard Scanlan and Tami Spry
Spouses Bernard "Barry" Scanlan (71) and Tami Spry (64) have a conversation about Barry's service in the Marine Corps, his job as a school teacher, and his involvement in Veterans for Peace.