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March 13, 1998

Pinned by History

People who left their private lives and were seized by some huge historical moment.

Prologue

Host Ira Glass with Jan Tomare, who spent three years in the Auschwitz concentration camp. (4 minutes)
Act Two

God Of War

In Vietnam, Jeffrey Harris, with one year of grad school, judged which soldiers stayed and which went home. (15 minutes)