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“It is a very specific cloud hanging over us. It just feels like we’re at pause.”
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“You have to go back. And you’re going back to train for the Olympics.”
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"So much of the world is just noise. And for me, it is that noise that brings the anxiety."
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"So much of the world is just noise. And for me, it is that noise that brings the anxiety."
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“I remember he had the white boots, the white mask, with kind of like a red beak.”
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“I rushed towards you and I just started screaming, ‘Leave him alone!’”
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Family Politics

Family Politics
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Common Ground
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Common Ground
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A Second Chance

A Second Chance

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The Nature of War
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Tom's War
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Unlikely Connections

Friendships forged against the odds

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"My American soldier became my Iraqi brother."
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"My American soldier became my Iraqi brother."

Paul Braun, an Army sergeant with the Minnesota National Guard, talks with Philip, who served as his interpreter in Iraq, about the friendship they've built.
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"I just hugged the man who murdered my son."
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"I just hugged the man who murdered my son."

In 1993, Oshea Israel shot and killed Mary Johnson’s only son. A dozen years later, Mary visited Oshea in prison, and an unlikely friendship began.
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"I heard the door rattle, and I see you coming in."

"I heard the door rattle, and I see you coming in."

Green Beret Joe Serna, who found adjusting to civilian life difficult after retirement, talks with the judge who helped him change his life during a night in jail.
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"I was absolutely sure that I had killed you."
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"I was absolutely sure that I had killed you."

Jeff Wilson sits down with his former high school classmate, Tammie Baird, to talk about the time he accidentally hit her with his car in 1984.